'Tis the season

I seem faintly ahead of myself this year, maybe the fact that circumstances of the last few weeks have caused an ongoing sorting out of stuff (still a long way to go). I even wondered if we should put the Christmas Tree up this weekend...Advent not yet begun...I was reminded that Fr Christmas did arrive in Adelaide last weekend...but we'll leave it for a couple of weeks.
So here is my annual blog about the jacaranda, since I saw a wonderful specimen yesterday, which sends the thrill of the late Spring surging through my veins.
Reminding that exams are happening (T was feeling glum last night and I couldn't cheer him up....Ahh well they're NOT all over he said....still a week to go! I allowed him the indulgence of feeling sorry for himself)
Any way the order is almost ready for the Carol Service, there is a deep sense that if we don't do this or that now, then in four weeks time it will be too late!

Wild and wooly

It's almost possible to believe with such wild weather here and in all sorts of other places that something global is happening. Maybe the particle accelerator did bring about some teensy weensy black holes, and all the weather came out of them.

Or maybe the world is indeed warming faster than we think. Today.

But then as I said to someone this morning!

It is typical show weather. Hot one day, wet and wild the next. The vagaries of early Spring.