It's clearly quite insane to rave on about the weather when there are plenty more interesting things to comment upon, but I really am enjoying this heat. The weatherman says above 30 all week! I can't believe that it's still this warm. Yesterday I went for a drive up through the Barossa region with a mate. The country really is very dry though, that was a bit shocking. Everything is just brown brown, until you come across a vineyard of course where it is so brilliant green your eyes are shocked by the vibrancy. Had a veggie burger at a pub on the main drag of Tanunda, a bit of a beer and headed back into Adelaide. There is definitely part of this country in my blood, when I see the gum trees, the clear bright blue expanse of sky, it feels like home. Waking up to kookaburras going off their nut on the powerlines and stumbling across lizards and kangaroos on a stroll through the hills behind dad's house... it is all very comfortable. I am still adjusting to the people though. Each person who I met on my walks through the hills has greeted me with a big "G'day!", and a smile. Weird. And in the streets, at the shops, if I smile at someone, they smile back! They don't avert their gaze, they actually engage with me like I am a normal human being. It's lovely.
Today was Tightarse Tuesday at the cinema and I indulged in a foreign film. Buggered if I can recall what it was called now! I will have to look it up and come back and fill it in, I quite enjoyed it. Set a few years before the fall of the Berlin wall. I received way too much chocolate from the Easter Bunny this year. It seems there is a conspiracy afoot to attempt to fatten me up! Although given my well known love of the brown stuff it's hardly surprising that at Easter I should be singled out for a lot of chocolate love. Slightly relieved that the long weekend is over though because there are things I need to do at the shops and banks etc. Tomorrow I start the dreaded task of pulling my boxes out of the cellar at dad's and sorting out all the shit I put in there a year ago with a more critical eye for what is Necessary and what is Not. I suspect rather a lot of it may fall into the latter category. The trouble is that the boxes have been sitting in spider territory for a good 12 months. I am not a fan of spiders. They are small and sneaky with a predilection for jumping out at inconvenient times. I am certain that my belongings are now ridden with them. Having spent a spider-free year in Japan my heart is ill prepared to deal with the creepy bastards. But my hair cannot continue in this Frodo-style fashion forever, I must find my hairdryer! But tomorrow, now I must eat an easter bunny and vegetate.
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