100 days of Summer

( a sun, sea and sand summer)

As Australia enters a potentially record breaking heat-wave (target: 40’C+ over 4 days) and I can’t recall the last time I’ve felt substantial rainfall on my head, it will certainly seem that I will indeed realise what a 100 day summer feels like (it’s meant to cool down at the end of March).

So making good use of this weather, we (family friends and spouses) have been getting a weekly routine of having a dinner-picnic at the beach. First time round (last week) we didn’t plan on going into the ocean, but when we decided to chase waves as far as we could without getting wet. However, I invariably tripped and planted into the water, to the hilarity of others, who then decided to join me in the water. Next time round, we were prepared with towels, though these ended up being useful for other purposes, namely stemming my nose bleed I succumbed to when thought it would be a good idea to try and trip a 6 foot rock of a lad (Christian), which ended with his foot accidently contacting my face and thus producing a red waterfall.

Beautiful imagery aside, last Sunday we headed out into the countryside. Not your rolling hill scenario, but into Swan Valley, home of the vines that produce Western Australian wine (Margret River being the other WA wine producer). However we headed to a different alcohol establishment, a Germanic microbrewery, which for our interest was also a restaurant. Who would have thought you could get a piece of Deutsch delight in the outback of Australia, but it certainly brought fond memories of Germany back for me (put Germany on your travel list if you haven’t been).

(the way I like my grapes... as grapes)



I started back to school this week, no, not as student but as teacher or more precisely as home school science tutor. Home schooling is more common than in England, so I have willingly taken on the job of teaching Ali science. Though, at this stage it’s more so getting her interested in science, as she is more of lover of the Arts, which is fair enough, we don’t all get our kicks from learning about Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly). So like any cool teacher, for our first lesson we made paper aeroplanes... and then I taught her about the basic 4 forces that govern flight (lift, weight, thrust and drag).

Australia Day on the 26^th, which I assume equates to national barbeque day. Should be bonza!

Catch you dingos later!