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Monday, December 30, 2013

December 30. Day 364. Things are hotting up



I hate the cold. I hate the wind blistering your skin. I hate that your extremities refuse to warm up no matter what. I hate cold sheets that force you to curl up in a ball until you gradually pluck up the courage to edge a toe at a time further down the bed and having achieved bed warmth being forced to ignore the call of nature until things get really desperate because you dare not leave your cocoon. Sure those who live on the cold side in the cold versus hot debate will say you can always put on another layer but there's a limit to how many you can take off.  I see that, but the cold has reduced me to tears in the way heat never has. That doesn't mean, however, that the long hot Queensland summer is exactly nice. It's unpleasantly sweaty and draining. On those days there are only two things for it. Water or air conditioning or in my case both.
The pool was unsurprisingly popular today. Dive in, cool off, get out be dry and hot and sticky in no time at all. Repeat. Everyone was after a piece of the action (this is my nephew Connor). A parade of hot sweaty bodies were jumping lemming-like into the refreshing water. Tomorrow is another day and my guess is the pool will get another serious workout

8 comments:

  1. Great photos as always! #CountryKids

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  2. gorgeous shots! and i am with you on the cold!

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  3. What great photos, I know that when we were staying in France last year with family the pool was never lonely. Our children would have happily spent their days playing with their cousins in and around the pool. I'm not a big fan of the cold myself, but in Cornwall we rarely have very harsh winters - thanks for linking and sharing and making a few of us jealous!

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  4. What brilliant pics, and coming from the West Indies but being a Londoner by marriage I completely relate to how you feel about the cold! Give me heat and white sands versus cold and snow any day! #CountryKids

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  5. I want your camera and pool! I don't do heat so guess Queensland in summer out of the question ;-)

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  6. Forgot what the sun feels like at mo. Great photos!

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  7. Er I kinda prefer colder weather to red hot weather,specially at nights..oddball!lovely photo
    #countrykids

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