After a warmer than normal November, I wake to snow on the mountains. A lot of snow. It's a shock after all the north-westers we've been having. According to NIWA, the warm air masses have been coming from Australia. An Australian reporter interviewed by Radio NZ connects the "rolling, ongoing fire crisis" and climate change. His view, that the fires are never going to be extinguished, Australians simply have to adjust to this preview of what summers will be like for the foreseeable future. To add insult to injury, climate denier, Australian PM, Scott Morrison, has gone on holiday. Sydney has been shrouded in smoke for weeks and some mornings there's a filtered light typical of photochemical pollution, over our skies. Simply put, Australia's fires will affect us too. It turns out this November has been the second highest on record globally, with the world's five hottest Novembers occurring since 2013.
Here in Christchurch, it's trouser weather with a howling southerly icing the peaks of the Southern Alps. I spend the morning making food- antidote to cold weather. It's mid afternoon before I get to the house, having stopped to buy a honey suckle plant and visiting the bank on the way. There are cabbage tree and magnolia leaves over the back garden and the dirt pile is growing weeds. I dig up another old bottle and give myself a good work out moving earth. The sun is out, the wind drops and by the time I get to the beach in the early evening it looks like summer again.
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| Fruit cake going in the oven- I'm going to have time to do Xmas icing one day |
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| Best bank in NZ- locally owned and friendly as |
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