Freezing cold

I meant to start this blog writing about the Eurovision song contest but feel that it is a little bit old news already. The weather is much more present, all the time, every day and it is cold here in Sydney now. The days are gloriously sunny and it gets up to +20 C but waking up and when it is only 11 in the kitchen and maybe 7 outside as it was yesterday morning is harsh. See, they don't have central heating in houses here. If you are lucky you might have an a/c that does heating as well but in our case that is just localized to our bedroom and the kitchen, the rest of the house is very, very cold. Okay, enough complaints for today; at least I can go outside and warm up as soon as the sun is out.

Soo, the Eurovision,  we won!! Or rather Sweden won. I feel it was well merited but I would have felt the same if Australia had won or the UK, they were my three faves, so any of them would have done me. Not everyone is happy though, I just read an article called "Where are the freaks, Eurovision  2015 was far too respectable" and I tend to agree a little bit. Missing the songs sung in native tongues and in folk dress, but I guess we are past that now.

Here in Australia we have Vivid Sydney going on and we might go in tonight for a stroll to the different venues, it's bound to be good. If we don't go I have seen a lot of photos of it already so I almost feel like I have been there. We are getting a little short for time before our big Europe trip.
We are leaving in exactly a week and now is the time to do all those last-minute things you have put off to do later. Hubby and I are both serious procrastinators, but we usually get the important things done. Favorite saying "No press, no production", right.

Last Sunday we had a very nice catch up lunch with a friend, whom we initially met many years ago while living in Grenoble.

 

She and her husband, who is a colleague of hubby, now lives in Switzerland and we, as you all know, are here in Sydney.  We all know "It is a small world", and proof of that is that  her son and family now live in Sydney and she was here to see them.They live on the other side of town near the  lovely Balmoral  beach,  where we had a little walk before driving home again.

Bye for now dear readers, and thanks for reading!