The Naked Flame

Well, that has been a very long week. I didn't realise how exhausting the experience had been until I got home and slept an extra 8 hours over the weekend. I feel a lot better now though which is good.

This feeling was not helped by the first heatwave of this summer hitting exactly this weekend. I thought the Gold Coast was a nice warm change from the Sydney cool weather that I had come from, but it turns out there was better waiting back home.

Saturday hit a nice warm 28 degrees, and I was expecting the same today, but it turns out we got an even more sweltering 33. Looks like there'll be a few more isolated hot days through the week, so maybe it is here to stay already.

For the past months our winter temperatures had been peaking around 20 degrees (yes, that means it actually ends up cold at night!). Suddenly today out of nowhere it shot up to 29, and I wasn't quite prepared for that yet... it seems we are skipping spring this year.

(Forecasts indicate we can expect to be back into winter by the middle of next week when we drop below 20 again).