to think that Australia should be a bit bloody warmer than this?

[thumblesswitch]

It is fecking FREEEEEZING! I am sitting here with a 2-bar electrical heater on, cowering inside cos it's too bloody windy and cold (although nowhere NEAR as bad as yesterday when it was also horizontal rain!) to go outside!

Surely, it's supposed to be nice and warm? Surely I am supposed to be able to wear my 2 lovely new swimmers that I bought only last week? This is just wrong!!

And DH wants me to move here next year, on the grounds that it's so much more outdoorsy and lovely weather!

poor you. when i went to oz it was cold at night in the more desert parts. where are you?

It's a freak patch. Two days ago I was in a sarong and today I'm in jeans, jumper, gilet and am freezing. I might have to get the heater out.

It will be scorchio again by the weekend.

I am on the edge of Lake Macquarie, just down from Morisset in NSW. Being on the lake is making it 10 times worse, I'm sure - and the fact that to get from the bedroom to the rest of the house we have to go out onto the lower terrace, around the side of the house, up the stairs onto the upper (open)porch and then in through the back doors is just dreadful! poor Ds, although he does think it is a great scream to be blown around - I try to time it between the horizontal rain squalls.

Arf, I saw that it's supposed to get better by the weekend - fingers crossed! It's been like this here since Sunday eve when the thunder and lightning started

thumbleswitch, I'm in Sydney and it's the same down here. Totally freaky weather - I'm freezing, rugged up and considering lighting the fire, but they say it'll be high 20's/early 30's by the weekend. Very odd weather, there was snow in the Blue Mountains yesterday - in October!!!

Brrrr.

and here comes the horizontal rain again, oh joy....

and to think that DH scoffed at me when i packed my fleece "just in case" - just wish i'd also packed socks and boots!!

I had to take a hot water bottle to bed last night, for the first time ever.

In the summer you will be saying

"It is fecking BOILING! I am sitting here with the air con on, cowering inside cos it's too bloody hot (although nowhere NEAR as bad as yesterday when it was hot enough to fry eggs on the car) to go outside"

Enjoy it! Really!

Sandcastles, I had to get the winter duvet out of storage at 3 in the morning the other night (and stubbed my toe along the way). I demand the right to whinge about both!

• you're probably right but at the mo this is my holiday and it's almost a week out of it, not being able to do anything nice

plus i don't think i'd be so pissed off if the bedroom was at least inside the house...

Are you sure there is no secret tunnel to the bedroom...that set up is rather bizaar!

Yep, i'm back in a jumper and tights with my suit today - but I was in a vest top and shorts on Sunday sitting out in the sunshine all day! It is very odd weather.

defo no secret tunnel/stair, more's the pity

Flum, that is so not funny...I sympathise!

However, I am enjoying the colder weather, because all too soon it will be too hot to think!

Going to be 28 here today and Saturday will be 35. Tra lalalalala

Scorchio

Mind you tis a bit chilly now. Will have a cuppa to warm up.

I don't think it will be 28 now claudia...

Really? dammit.

Will have to pop a cardi on. I am roasting a chicken right now so hopefully the oven will heat the house up.

How are you getting on Sandcastles? How is the baby?

I'm sitting here shivering wishing DS2 didn't have swimming after school. I put our winter duvet on the bed last night on top of the lighter one, wore my fleeciest pjs and was warm for the first time all day!

Hope you get some decent weather for the rest of your holiday thumblesswitch!

sunnyd, my three had swimming on Monday when the change came over. It was warm(ish) and 4pm when I jumped in the pool. By 6pm, when the last finished, I was sitting by the edge blue and shivering trying to keep other two dcs warm too. Cancel!!

I agree, it's freezing here in Sydney at the moment.

Wednesday it was apparently the coldest day in October for 16 years - 12c in the city itself and blinking SNOW out in the Blue Mountains - insane! Especially as it was so toasty last Sunday.

Still chilly today and so hard to warm up as nobody has thought to install gas central heating in this country at all - brrr!

Does kind of make you wonder why we bothered emigrating in the first place LOL

HEY, ITS A GOOD EXCUSE TO CUDDLE UP AND WATCH EASENDERS CATCHUPS ON THE IPLAYER, BEEN QUITE BOOOORRING ANYWAYS!

Ah, but then you have to go through the hassle of setting up a proxy IP cos Iplayer doesn't work if you're outside the UK

Baby is doing v well, thank you!

She knows I like my sleep & sleeps 7-7 now! Yay!

Although I did refrain from telling the other mums at dd1's school that while they were maoning about their babies not sleeping!

And it did warm up after lunch, quite nicely, didn't it?

NO! It just pissed down with yet more rain, and is still doing so! Still, hope it goes away tomorrow or at the least by Saturday...