Well, here we are in our final weeks of winter and spring is already in the air - thank goodness! Having to wear long sleeves, long pants, and socks in my sandals was getting to be a bit much. It was nice this week to get back to my usual garb of skorts and T-shirts...

For all you early risers who get up on Sundays at the ridiculous hour of 6am and enjoy a coffee whilst reading this blog - I apologise for being late getting it out today! But I have a good excuse - friends from Canada arrived this arvo! Hence the title of the blog -...

We are definitely having a cold winter here! After having an unusually rainy autumn, we're now having an unusually cold winter. Check out the description of just how cold it's been south of us (the vocab used is what Canadians use when it hits -20C!): Fortunately, it...