Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: cookie1 on November 19, 2009, 05:45:12 am
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I've just been looking at SA weather sites. ILB I see that it is 40 in Wangaratta. Poor you. Ceduna is 45. I'm glad I'm not driving through it.
We are thinking of you as it continues to rain here!.
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We are supposed to get that rain at the weekend Cookie1 - fingers crossed. It's not so bad when you know a cool change is coming.
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Hang in there.
They say we'll be getting some summer early next week. :P
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Poor grapes at Milawa. Hopefully the Whitalnds will fare better. Can't wait for some real summer weather - it was 30 degrees overnight here. :o :o :o :o
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What a dreadful night. You would need your summer pj's and air con or at least a ceiling fan.
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What a dreadful night. You would need your summer pj's and air con or at least a ceiling fan.
Yes, had to wear PJs as stepdaughter and grandson were staying over. But have individual aircons in each room - so safe.
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Thank God for airconditioning. I'm over summer already - and guess what it hasn't even started!!!!!!
Roll on cool change.
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It is certainly an early heatwave. We hit 30 here today which was hot enough with Tassie's lack of humidity. The AC may get it's first run of the season tomorrow!
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Just spotted this thread. Yes HOT!!!! We had 40C today and although tomorrow was supposed to be 36 I see now they've up'd the ante and made it 41C ;) :-[ :-[ :-[
Too damn hot for anything!! Today I left Bimby at Miss 3's day care and popped by at lunch time and whizzed up some banana/strawberry sorbet for the kidlets for a cool down. (I work only a few km's away from there so very handy!!) Tomorrow I'm supposed to be prepping for the Corowa and Wang cooking classes :-\ so don't like the idea of the oven being on :o
To top it of Miss 3 has come down with a bad cold and is still calling out in her sleep. Hopefully stiill ok to ship off to daycare cos I just cant have her at hoe and get everything else done. When she's feeling like that it's hardly fare to take her out in that heat to run errands!
Sorry a bit off topic but all heat related.
So I sympahise with anyone else stuck in this disgustingly early heat! What happened to Spring this year??
At least it's back in the midish 20's on the weekend for the cooking classes!!! ;D ;D ;D
You're right Thermomixer - not good for the grapes. At about 32 or 36C the vines actually shut down and don't ripen the fruit (all part of mother natures way of preserving the plant). Up to there it's a very fast ripening process.
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I'm feeling very sorry for all you SA'ns. Particularly the farming community. I believe there's been crop fires... And here we are with rain preventing us from starting harvest. :-\
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Has there been any rain in SA yet to cool things down???
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Yes we got 6mm here last night but other areas probably got a lot more. We are always lower at North Haven. Cool enough to wear a cardigan today but loving it.
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Very glad. Now so many of you have fires to contend with.
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That's good news JD. :)
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Plus another 11 mls last night.
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Great, I'm glad some of the rain reached you.
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thank goodness it's been quite pleasant here, not keen on temps around 40!
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Should start a rain thread - Melbourne had its monthly rainfall in one day.
Chelsea - maybe you spoke too soon about the temp in Tassie - I see there have been fires there too.
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DD1 in Melbourne was telling me last night that your dams are still very low though - ours in SA are over 90% full she tells me (how she knows these things and I don't is a mystery). You obviously are just not getting the rain that you used to get.
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Not for the last 8 years or so - it has been really bad - especially in the catchment areas. The govt was too slow at stopping people washing down the paths with water and washing cars on the side of the road. If they had introduced restrictions 2 or 3 years earlier we would probably still be over 50% capacity.
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They had to release some water recently from one of our dams. What a pity they just didn't tell us all to wash our cars with a hose, not a bucket & wash down our houses and roller doors. When water was plentiful (in the good old days) I used to love giving our house a good squirt down to freshen things up. They have allowed the water restrictions to be relaxed a little now and we are allowed to water up to 5 hours a week between certain hours morning and evening so, as long as people don't abuse it and spoil it for us all, our gardens should start looking a little better this summer. Mind you, we have plans to rip everything out at the front and make it low maintenance (going to cost a fortune) because this garden is just too big for me to maintain on my own and if we are going to stay here for many more years, something has to be done. Anyone know a good landscape gardener in S.Aust - I know exactly what I want. DD2 works at a place who supply fake grass so that will be covered for the lower level and I want everything in the top level ripped out & replanted with yukkas, flaxes and agave type plants with river pebbles. Now all I have to do is find someone to do it for me - I can't even get things going by removing the plants myself at the moment although in the New Year ........???
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Chelsea - maybe you spoke too soon about the temp in Tassie - I see there have been fires there too.
There are fires in other parts of the state. We are still singing "It's raining, it's pouring" here. Our vegie garden has gone berserk in this warm but wet weather. :)
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Don't you go over doing it young Judy. Take it slowly and only rip out a few things a day!!