DUTY DONE !

Hello my friends. I'm back from visiting my parents who live in a Retirement Village in Hervey Bay, a four and a half hour drive from here. I haven't been up to see them for quite a while  - what with overseas visitors and trips to France and all !!!
Anyway, I've done the good daughter stuff and spent four days with them. I'm happy to report that they are both very well and enjoying their time in their little two bedroom house in the "resort" as they call it !
I've got a lot of tripping around blogland to do to catch up with all your adventures so be patient, I'll drop in to "chat" with you soon.

What I have noticed as I've been speeding around your blogs is all the lovely Summer gardens and what looks like incredibly warm weather a lot of you have been having.

Which leads me into what I thought I would post about today -Winter in Brisbane.

Strangely down here in Oz we change seasons on the first of the month.
So we are now officially in Winter - June, July and August are officially our Winter months.

Outside the sky is blue and there are a few clouds around as it is a bit rainy which is quite unusual for this time of year.

It's four fifteen in the afternoon and twenty degrees.

It will be dark around 5:45pm

and our overnight low will probably be around 12 degrees.

In other words lovely weather - sunny warm days and cool nights.

It should be like this for most of June with perhaps the odd colder day and chilly night.

No wonder people from the  southern states flock to Queensland for their Winter holidays.

I'll give you another report on our Winter weather in July when it should be colder.

Cheers.