The end of summer time arrived yesterday with the clocks now going back one hour. So we are only 11 hours ahead of UK now. Kieran's last cricket match was on Saturday and the football season starts in 2 weeks.
It has been a very long summer. Even by NZ standards this has been a good one. We had an official drought, not good for the farmers or garden buffs, with grass so dry it was like straw. Record temperature here in Cambridge of 34.6 degrees, but many many days of clear, hot sunshine. The fire warning boards were all set to extreme in the forests with the forest floors being like dry tinder.
Sitting on the deck yesterday morning in the sun having our morning cuppa was like, as Jan put it, 'UK in June or July'!! We got to 26 degrees yesterday, (which is after all the equivalent of October in the northern hemisphere) and we are still walking round in T shirt and shorts, not bad that is it?? There is a bit of a cooling in the air now. We had a much needed downpour last week, with a lot of rain, but the river is still low with very little snow melt to fill it up from the mountains and volcanoes of the central plateau.
The leaves are still on the trees, but there is the odd one fluttering down off our big Yucca tree in the front garden. The daffodils are going in as soon as we get some bulbs.
So best get a light fleece out for the coming 'frosts' - if you can call them that :D
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