Well sunshine, frost and fog anyway. Today was the first frost, and it wasn't one of those little-bit-of-white-in-one-corner-of-the-yard-frosts. Every lawn and roof was white. Every car needed scraping. Being the nerd I am, I use a combination of 4 websites to get my weather forecasts and observations (I don't know why they vary so much). It was down to -2 last night, and was still at -2 when I left home this morning, which was several degrees less than forecast. And it is supposed to keep getting colder all week. It's getting exciting. I'll have to wear a hat tomorrow.
My brithday wasn't great. I pulled a muscle in my neck on the way to work, but didn't take the hint and decided to martyr on. I ended up spending 5 hours on public transport. But Adam made me a lovely tempura and sushi dinner to eat off my lovely new sushi serving set. And I had Tuesday off to recover.
Saturday was the real party day. We headed off to London to our favourite Japanese restaurant for lunch, and to see Ducktastic, a very silly West End play/musical with actual ducks. Yay ducks. Adam got a bit stressed, and I'm sure he thought of running off at half time - the Australian world cup qualifer against Uruguay, in Uruguay, was going to be broadcast a mere 3 hours after the show finished at one pub in the UK, conveniently located 15 minutes walk from the theatre. We got there at quarter past five (already dark), and the queue was already half way down the block.
Two hours later of drinking Fosters and chatting with the rest of the cold, queueing Aussies, we squeezed our way in and found a corner to stand in and managed to move onto jugs of some other beer. The game was great. Go Aussies. Unfortunately we lost 1-0, but there is a Sydney home game to go. It's probably best we aren't there for it or we would have to take three days off work to stand outside the uruguayan hotel and learn to play bagpipes with a megaphone. We will be watching it here. Somewhere.
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well it was a lot of tempura, but no. the recovery was from the massage therapist as the pain spread from the neck down all the tense muscles in my shoulder & back (i miss yosh). and the psychological pain from and fear of public transport.
I'm happy that you are as much a weather geek as me. Yesterday I downloaded Sydney's weather stats from the BOM website, imported them into Excel and made graphs! How excitement! I plan to do the same with Düsseldorf and make some comparisons...
Also, I take my own observations too, as i've stuck an outdoor thermometer onto my kitchen window, so when I'm getting ready in the morning I know how cold it is...
Anyway, now we all know that we are in the World Cup (so much more important than the weather), so Yaaaaayyyy!!!!!!
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