Winter has visited us in a splendid manner, I think it has been the coldest April day in 50 years or so the news informed me or maybe that was just my imagination. But it is such a pleasant surprise, the biting chill numbing my cheeks and arms as I went out to grab some lunch. I was caught offside without a jumper and only a short sleeved polo shirt but inwardly I was glowing with the endorphins that the howl of antarctic ghosts wailing up Van Diemen’s Land onto the shores mainland Oz release.

I love the way the winter bite invigorates the senses, awakening the dead cells of summer languish, opening old pores clogged with sweat and smog that the brazen heat of summer bakes into the skin. I no longer have to trudge through the sweat on my way to work. The chilly air will snap my dreary eyes awake, welling them with moisture from stinging icy fingers poking at them as the wind lashes through frigid air.

It’s funny how the weather changes so dramatically, Saturday was really quite warm and then suddenly it gets snap frozen. But I do prefer the a cooler climate, my body doesn’t handle the heat very well.