The Year of the Sizzled Serpent

Here's wishing a happy and prosperous new year to all the Izzie's serpent associates

Had such grand plans for the day. Was meant to be off slinking about in the city where a whole bunch of streets have been closed to cars for all the snaky celebrations. It looked to be a seriously massive street party with lion and dragon dances and a guest appearance by the Wagyl (the local Rainbow Serpent who usually slithers about in the river)
The supermarkets had strategically placed bags of snake sweets on the end of aisles and the fruit sections had dragon fruit, lychees, longans and all sorts of decadent indulgences. Even one of the big four banks got in on the act and had their shelves adorned with rows and rows of snaky 'piggie' banks. Such a pity its corporate colours are two horrid shades of blue.

But the gods giggle when serpents make plans. Had been looking forward to this weekend for quite a while and then at the very last moment the Weather bureau goes all wowser and party pooper by predicting and delivering a sizzling stinking 41 degree day.

So no special green hat, no silver serpent necklace, no green skirts and stuff for slinking about in the city. One could get nuked from just walking out the door into the sun light. Pity any poor vampire who live in this part of the planet

While it might be true that once you are busy, out and about and actually doing stuff you are less likely to notice the heat than just sitting inside looking out and moping about it, it still doesn't prevent you from getting sizzled. And as the ultraviolet levels are so extreme in this bit of Oz, such little things can have long term serious consequences

Here the sun is so savage that you can get nuked even from the sun shining in the window at 7 in the morning. Sometimes snoozing in an east facing room does have its drawbacks. Even curtains present no serious obstacle.

Just stayed slinking about the Lair doing very little at all. And now they are promising us another two days or more of the same

Lots of the freaky Fringe Festival events tents do not have air conditioning so any venturing out will require being quite fussy about which shows to go to, if any.
As for the garden, had a whole pile of beans eyed up for soaking and planting last Friday. But the weekend forecast soon put an end to that

Had a big week attending assorted culture vulture activities. Everything here seems to happen in February. Even Saint Michael of Leunig will be gracing the Writer's festival two weeks from now with his presence. He's doing workshops on creativity but they are quite expensive. But should be able to manage one 60 minute talk to gaze upon his greatness as a member of the adoring audience.

Will probably spend most of March recovering from all the excitement as well as spending some much needed time in the garden if there's any of it left after weeks of this weather

The Year of the Sizzled Serpent

Here's wishing a happy and prosperous new year to all the Izzie's serpent associates

Had such grand plans for the day. Was meant to be off slinking about in the city where a whole bunch of streets have been closed to cars for all the snaky celebrations. It looked to be a seriously massive street party with lion and dragon dances and a guest appearance by the Wagyl (the local Rainbow Serpent who usually slithers about in the river)
The supermarkets had strategically placed bags of snake sweets on the end of aisles and the fruit sections had dragon fruit, lychees, longans and all sorts of decadent indulgences. Even one of the big four banks got in on the act and had their shelves adorned with rows and rows of snaky 'piggie' banks. Such a pity its corporate colours are two horrid shades of blue.

But the gods giggle when serpents make plans. Had been looking forward to this weekend for quite a while and then at the very last moment the Weather bureau goes all wowser and party pooper by predicting and delivering a sizzling stinking 41 degree day.

So no special green hat, no silver serpent necklace, no green skirts and stuff for slinking about in the city. One could get nuked from just walking out the door into the sun light. Pity any poor vampire who live in this part of the planet

While it might be true that once you are busy, out and about and actually doing stuff you are less likely to notice the heat than just sitting inside looking out and moping about it, it still doesn't prevent you from getting sizzled. And as the ultraviolet levels are so extreme in this bit of Oz, such little things can have long term serious consequences

Here the sun is so savage that you can get nuked even from the sun shining in the window at 7 in the morning. Sometimes snoozing in an east facing room does have its drawbacks. Even curtains present no serious obstacle.

Just stayed slinking about the Lair doing very little at all. And now they are promising us another two days or more of the same

Lots of the freaky Fringe Festival events tents do not have air conditioning so any venturing out will require being quite fussy about which shows to go to, if any.
As for the garden, had a whole pile of beans eyed up for soaking and planting last Friday. But the weekend forecast soon put an end to that

Had a big week attending assorted culture vulture activities. Everything here seems to happen in February. Even Saint Michael of Leunig will be gracing the Writer's festival two weeks from now with his presence. He's doing workshops on creativity but they are quite expensive. But should be able to manage one 60 minute talk to gaze upon his greatness as a member of the adoring audience.

Will probably spend most of March recovering from all the excitement as well as spending some much needed time in the garden if there's any of it left after weeks of this weather