Posted in Life in NZ on 12/20/2004 01:56 am by Tam
You know how people talk about places like Hawai’i being “seasonless” ? In that there’s not much difference between the weather and temperatures from Winter to Summer ? We’re coming to realize that New Zealand is also more or less “seasonless”, only in a different way. It has hot, dry Summers and cold, wet, windy winters, and crazy blustery wild Springs and crisp clear Autumns. It just doesn’t pay any attention to the calendar when it has these things. For example right now, in the local equivalent of mid-June, it’s in the lower 50s, with gale force winds and rain squalls that occasionally have hail in them. Two days ago, I was walking to the train along the waterfront in short sleeves, seriously contemplating taking off my shoes and going barefoot.
Today, we’re having another Day O’ Fun. The plans were to, among other things, have a bonfire and test-fire the arbalest Oskar’s been building — both of which are looking highly unlikely at the moment. Oh well. Instead, we’ll probably sing carols around the fireplace & it’ll almost feel like we’re back in the other hemisphere.