@whowasthatmaskedman I have a jigsaw puzzle on the go, watch a dvd or two and reading a horror book. 6pm now. Tomorrow I have my car booked in for two new front tyres. Then I will be catching the train to Joondalup Hospital to visit my friend Ashley. Hip replacement. 36 degrees tomorrow.
@Gusman I was stuck in the house, unable to drive or walk more than a few steps all through December and January. Streaming TV and this place saved what is left of my sanity..😷
@swirlie Actually, I picked up a dozen acorns from a grove of oaks at the university where I worked and potted them. They nearly all took and I picked the best looking one when they were a foot high. I figure the parent tree goes back to about 1960 when the Uni was first established.😷
@swirlie Noel Coward sang, "Only mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun" Sensible people such as Gusman seek shade until the sun has lowered beyond the horizon. When I first arrived in Western Australia, I was astounded to see council workers digging with shovels when the temperature was hovering around the 100-degree mark. Cricketers out on the oval with the temperature above 105 degrees. So, it is not only mad dogs and Englishmen, but some also pretty crazy Aussies do it as well.
@Gusman Funny you say that because where I was born and raised in southern Ontario Canada along Lake Erie, my parents raised my sisters and I on a tobacco farm.
We had migrant farm workers come up from Kingston Jamaica each year whom my father hired to come and plant the crops and do the harvest as well, but when the daytime morning temp reached 25C, all field labor stopped by 11am and didn't resume again until 3pm that afternoon.
