Pictures of Alexandra [Topic 4]

[Dahls]

Oh the power that woman possesses.

[fish]

"Look at those little forum dwellers jump!"

Alex: "I also have a little doll made for each of you. And a whole lot of needles."

[Ian]

I can only hope and pray she's taken up acupuncture.

[Dahls]

Alex made me a doll?
I'll take that as a positive sign.

[fish]

The doll is nice.
The voodoo lessons, not so nice.


I'd like to say that Alex enjoyed the "First day of spring Fishfest" yesterday.
And while it was a beautiful mid-20°s day, it still wasn't quite warm enough for the pool.



Great day though.
The only thing that was missing was Alex.

[Ian]

Looks like Alex is fishing for something else there.

[Dahls]

Spring for you guys, autumn for us.

[DMt.]

Yes, I've felt that Autumn chill a few times lately, at night.

Not entirely unwelcome, either, after the suffocating humidity of a city summer.

[fish]

A cure for an autumn chill?



25° on Sunday, then 3 days in a row of 30° or more.
The hottest start to spring on record for Adelaide.
I'm sick of it already.

[Ian]

Wimp.

It's been like that most of our winter!

[Dahls]

The summer will be missed, but it's time to start looking forward for snowy winter now.
I'm sure Alex can help us keep warm.

[DMt.]

Winter in Manchester is cold wind and rain, with months of grey skies. Any snow blows right overhead, deflected by the Pennine hills and the fact that Manc is in a sort of shallow bowl, so that when the rest of the country in chest deep in snow we get a miserable little dusting that rapidly turns to dirty slush, and continue with our drear little micro-climate. There can be few places in the world that make a more appropriate setting for severe depression. So if you can be happy here, you can probably be happy in Chernobyl.

[DMt.]

Autumn is quite nice though.

[fish]

... rapidly turns to dirty slush...

Sounds like Manchester would be right at home on the forum after some of the posts I've seen.
Not now of course.
I meant in the long distant past.
Honest.


Alex: "I'll be the judge of that."



Mostly I enjoy our winters.
We occasionally get a little bit of snow up in the hills, but it never lasts very long.
Most of the time the maximum temperature is in the mid teens, perhaps a little lower in August, but this really is a beautiful climate.

Except for the summer heatwaves of 40° or more.

[Ian]

Manchester, eh?