Sunday midday

Winter begins officially here Wednesday, 1 June. While meteorologically winter doesn't start until the June Solstice — known and loved throughout the northern hemisphere as the Summer Solstice — here it's deemed best to keep track of the four seasons by starting them off the first day of the solstice'd or equinox'd month.

The last couple of days here in tassieland we got the full winter treatment in terms of cold & wind, even running to snow in the highlands and some not-so-high areas.

During extreme conditions like these we naturally we get weather warnings from our Bureau of Meteorogy. Particularly during cold and windy conditions, sheep grazier warnings are issued which sometimes come out as sheep warnings. The sheep warnings are my favorite with the mental image of sheep tumbling arse over teakettle before Antarctic blasts.

Today things have moderated. Now that I've paid quick attention to my new blogger persona, I'm off to spend the rest of our late autumn Sunday afternoon in Sunday mode.