coracle wrote:Well, I've been looking at the lovely sunny mornings after 9 am, and thinking how odd it is that it's only 2 degrees C outside! I'm recuperating from a chest and sinus infection, so it's nice not having to go out in it.
And it wasn't until after I got sick that I discovered I'm currently living in the worst city for asthma in this country. Damp and polluted, eh?
It can only get better!
I'd believe it, wherever you are. Each time I went to UK I ended up with some sort of 'lurgy', and a visit to the doctor. I hope you are better and haven't had the dreaded "Aussie flu" the International Express' latest edition was rabbiting on about. Did you have a real "White Christmas"? Or was it just plain chilly?
johobbit wrote:wagga, I simply melt at those sizzling temperatures in your part of the world!
It could have been worse. Sydney is one of Australia's largest cities, as you would expect, since it was the first one established, and it is rimmed with a collection of country towns that ended up as outer suburbs in what is called Greater Western Sydney. Some, like Penrith, Richmond, Hornsby and Campbelltown, are cities in their own right, with their own suburbia.
I noted that Sydney gets the glory for the hottest place on Earth last Sunday, according to the Washington Post, but, as locals said here in the news, Sydney is a good 60 kilometres away from the hot spot in question. The local minister there on Sunday preached a sermon on what hell is, but I doubt he meant such a literal interpretation. By the way, the highest temperature in these parts was 47.8C in Richmond, in 1939.