Long weekends are good. Friday was the Australia Day public holiday. I have mixed feelings about patriotic public holidays. Actually, I have mixed feelings about patriotism (agree, Tom!). Too often patriotism seems to degenerate into mindless jingoism. And we usually only choose to celebrate, selectively, and not acknowledge the wrongs of the past.
I had a computer break and did not read email or blogs over the long weekend. Instead I began reacquainting myself with the works of Ian Rankin. I don’t really know why I stopped reading Ian Rankin’s works (yonks ago I started, and stopped, reading Dead Souls), but all I can say is, some authors are justifiably popular. I’m glad I how have his entire series of Inspector Rebus novels to go through. And now, along with Ystad, I’d love to visit Edinburgh.
When I wasn’t reading, I lolled about on the couch with Baubles the Cat and M. We watched the entire series one of Prison Break. A show that is as full of cliffhangers and almost unbelievable storyline as Prison Break is, is most enjoyable when you can watch one episode after another, sans ads.
It was far too hot to do anything else, anyway. I hope today is a little cooler, but for the last three days we have had something of a heatwave. It got to 41.2ºC (106.16ºF) on Friday, 40.6ºC (105.8ºF) on Saturday, and 41.5ºC (106.7ºF) on Sunday.
Another birthday party tonight, for one of M’s aunts. She’s getting a couple of Peter Temple books, in the recently released Jack Irish Quinella version. (I love the fact that the women on M’s side of the family are crime fiction fans – we get to share good reads.)
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It’s hard to contemplate those temperatures right now! WOW!!! We got all the way *up* to 7 Fahrenheit (13.88 Celsius) today, with wind chill temps at a deadly -30 (-34.44 Celsius).
Well, it’s hard to contemplate your -30 wind chill temperatures, too… I’ll try and remember that cold still exists in other parts of the world 😉