The weather is going mad.
26 degrees today, 36 degrees in Sydney, and only earlier in the week did snow flurries dash past my window.
A check on the metservice reveals gusty winds to continue up and down the country, and up to 130km p/h in some exposed areas.
Uumm. Umm.
This really should be no surprise given my recent experience in a rather warmer than expected Argentina, a chilly Chile, and a hot and humid Carribean island of Cuba.
All it makes for is good washing weather - the perfect time to do household chores and watch the wind dry out and puff the feather duvet into shape.
It is too hot to even consider such activities as work, only to take mouthfuls of water.
I am currently reading how all mere mortals should drink alkaline water and this includes bathing in such water. There are also only certain carbohydrates to consume, and it looks like there is a new plague called fizzy drink. No suggary foods, no suggary drinks, no heavy-laden carbos for comfort.
The way is glycaemic load or GL. Very very very interesting.
The fellas are Ray and Terry, and the book is The Fantastic Voyage. This will be one of the most interesting books you will read for some time.
On a more romantic note, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is endeavouring to only let me be at my computer writing to you for a mere moment. No more time could possibly keep me from finding out what entirely is going to become of Fanny and what consequence awaits her.
All to be revealed next time on Pink.

A bomb of a night

It seems we are suddenly about to be put into peril by a bomb.
Interesting news for a Wednesday night. Another bomb about to go off is the climate changing daily. Where I am it has been a gorgeous blue sky day, a little windy but kinda warm. Up country 120km gales are punching the remote isles into a blithering heap. Goodness gracious.
I read yesterday with great fascination how a fella has re-fitted his 100 year old villa with batts and bought himself a solar power hot water cylinder and now his power is down to $47 in the summer. Reminds me of my power bills in the 1990's - except this was for two months not like the dirty tricks of being monthly.
My recent power bill has been near $300 and continues that way each ungrateful month. What is a girl to do in the damn cold? Freeze to death?
Having recently ventured around the world in 42 days, I can say it has been a rather extraordinary experience, and that hell it is hard travelling. Speaking inadequate espanol is really not helpful when your taxi driver is literally going way faster than you may wish to experience down a highway 10-lanes wide and full of old dunger beat-up cars which really shouldn't be on the road, but hey this is what happens when a country's economy falls to bits.
Favourite spots? BA.AS - Buenos Aires. It is blinkin enormous. So enormous. The contrasts are just mindboggling. Loved it. This is followed very very very closely by Havana, - now Pink's very own "city of love" filled with music, yummy mini-pizzas, and oh the coffee. Pablo Neruda's house on the coast of Chile is the most amazing museum full of all sorts of crazy collections from mexican voodoo-looking dolls to those big girl statues that hang off the stern of the ship as in the Titanic-type ship. His collection of shells included lime green ones, silver ones oh just lovely.
TOPSHOP - a heaven for the girl who absolutely totally loves fashion. I need to have this store right here. MUJI - a japanese haven whose MUJI house I want to bring to my place is like wow oh wow. Definitely going Japanese at my place. I now wear my very special MUJI slippers daily around the house. Tokyo gets five stars for its English on the trains, on the maps and in the subway. Loved Tokyo, and got my very first family sushi from a very neat small family-run place in Minowa.