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Snow lost its way

If you are wondering where the early snow in Switzerland is hiding, look no further than Adelaide in Australia ... which has had its first snowfalls in a century. Of course our Swiss friends looking at these historic pictures will probably be saying something like "You call that snow", and of course most of it will be gone before you can say "snowshoes". There were also reports of snow in parts of New South Wales that are very rarely so icy and continuing for example in Orange today until lunch time

Of course like most issues du jour in Australia which whipped up into a blizzard by the media, tomorrow it will be all forgotten as we move on to the next thing. Though misogyny seems to be here to stay forever just now.

With my winter woollies travelling the high seas and one small heater in the rented apartment, I am wondering how I will enjoy temperatures in Sydney today between 9 and 16 degrees C. The weather is forecast to be seriously wild in Sydney between 8 and 11 a.m. I will definitely not take my new little car out today - couldn't bear to see it damaged by hail. I guess I will have to get wet instead. Thanks goodness I have a special wild weather umbrella that Stefan and Alexa gave us but we never needed in Switzerland.

By the way I am still putting y into words with zees, mostly the ones that relate to Switzerland and I haven't used a Swiss keyboard now for almost two months. Funny how our brains work.

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