Mom threw me out til I get some pants that fit.

[reddragdiva]

I have just braved the midday heat to buy crap in the High Street: new semidisposable shoes, new 501s (black, W34 L36, regular fit) and two semidisposable fans. (With the Chinese artificially holding down the value of the yuan, the price of anything with a plug is going through the floor. DVD players in cereal packets.) On Sunday I went out and bought an actual CD of "Dragostea Din Tei", a remarkably difficult record to find, just because I could.

Both days featured enormous quantities of underdressed chavs in three straps and flipflops. Put you off the naked body.

Insert last year's joke about how weather like this makes me want to move somewhere cooler, like England. It would be better if the Engrish could get their heads around the change to their climate and work out this "air conditioning" thing that Australia has down pat. And "awnings." And "flyscreens." I can see us shipping flywire and screen doors in from Australia when we buy a place.

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I hate the cold a lot more than I hate the heat. Also, winter = short days = S.A.D = feeling like complete shit. At the moment I'm just too hot and operating on my normal levels of rage. Winter and cold weather usually leave me one provocation away from violence and miserable as sin. :( Different strokes, and all that.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

I got enough hot humid weather to last a lifetime living in ny.us and ma.us. I would be delighted to never experience another 95F/95%RH day as long as I live.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I could definitely live without the humid. But I miss the hot-dry of winter drought in Gujarat.

[reddragdiva]

You'd love the weather in Perth (hot and dry), though the place would drive you insane(r) in seconds.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Boring? Or some other problem?

[reddragdiva]

So amazingly tedious it goes out the other side of "dull" and through to some sort of Nirvana-like state of introspection, only with Nutrasweet, yellow swimsuits, five months of thirty to forty degrees, undrinkable lager and hideous complacency. Also if you don't have a car you're utterly, utterly fucked. It's somewhere to come from or go back to. I've done one and don't plan to do the other.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

My god, your feelings on the place sound a lot like my feelings on my home town. I love the place, you see, I just love it OVER THERE. AWAY from me. Much like my family, in fact.

Anywhere where being unable to drive is a problem is automatically SHITE, hence why I can apparently ONLY live in London, and possibly Amsterdam.

[reddragdiva]

It's a damn good place to go when you have to get the fuck away from it all for six months or a year. Clean, cheap, fatally pleasant, lots of nice people. So quiet and clean, it's like the Martians left several hundred years ago and left all their buildings behind. But, you know, I did so much getting away from it all growing up there that I think I'll be spending the rest of my life trying to get to it all.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Me too.