It can’t get too hot for me

I’m loving summer.  At the moment, Auckland is just sweltering.  Every night it cools down a little until about 9pm, and then (although I think this is actually impossible) it just seems to get hotter again, and by about 10.30pm the air conditioning is back on and the girls are kicking off their sheets.

People are complaining about the humidity, plants are dying, and some of the earth in our back garden is so dry it is cracking open.  But, I love this heat.  I’m not bothered by hot nights, and now that I’m on to my second Auckland summer, my hair isn’t getting frizzy in the humidity anymore.  (If you could see my hair you’d be pretty impressed that it ever got enough life to get frizzy at all, but it did, for about a month, last summer.)

This afternoon the girls didn’t even want to go to a park, which has literally never happened before in their lives.  So we jumped into the pool instead, which was a much better idea and I’ve got no idea why it hadn’t occurred to me earlier.

But as I put Lulu to bed she noticed that some leaves were blowing off the tree in the front lawn, and asked me if winter was on the way.  No, I cried, its miles away, but it was a good reminder – enjoy summer while it lasts!  Get outside, all ye in the southern hemisphere!