This and That and Wacky Weather

Well Trina has her car back. However I have learned to use the local bus system which I ride to the school on to fetch the kids. We all then ride back though somehow today Lian did not get off. So I waited on the other side at the stop and Julius waited where we got off. Sure enough after a little bit the bus came back the other direction with Lian as the sole passenger.

Last week in Sydney it was 35 and we were hot. But I guess we were lucky. Up north near where we had traveled cyclones caused massive flooding. And in Victoria there were the worst fires on record. A number of people and countless animals died. As is always true when something like this happens there is extreme controversy about forest management.

The last few days Sydney have cooled to the low 20s. Lian often complains she is freezing. I wouldn't go that far but it is true that the habituation to heat makes mild temperatures feel very cool. Cool enough that I even wore the long pants that had languished in disuse.

Not much is planned for the last days save that I will go on a day trip to the Hunter Valley wine region. I hope I don't overtaste and pass out at some cellar door.
And I will be going to downtown Sydney again in hot pursuit of souvenirs of some sort.

I still have linguistic problems- I almost never understand what people say. Announcements is say a train station are a complete mystery. The a sound is particularly difficult- I can even misunderstand such a mundane word as "car" is virtually unintelligible. To me the a sounds like my a when I try to imitate a crow.