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Callibration time
Dec. 19th, 2006 01:24 pmRight, so Weatherzone says the temperature is currently 33 degrees C as of 1pm Kent Town.
Just checked the thermometer* on the back wall outside - it says 36 degrees, but it is in a sheltered paved area (though no sunlight). Suspect it is always going to be a few degrees hotter than official - sorry to anyone working on projects in the back yard/garage over summer.
In the lounge it is currently 28 degrees, though I have been decadent and just put on the aircon. The house is well enough insulated that you don't need the aircon for the first day well above 30 degrees, but the cumulative effect of the second is enough to bump it up.
Christmas cards and letters are mostly posted, bar the package for Z family friends that we don't know the addresses of.
Shops were dangerous and I wandered out with ~2kg of cherries ($3 per ~500g bag), nectarines, grapes, dark drinking chocolate and a suprise for Z. Would have liked cheap strawberries for choc dipped strawberries, but not at $3+ per punnet. Not as bad as $6 per tiny punnet of raspberries. Roughly a dollar a spoonfull. Wonder if choc dipped cherries would work?
Time for Regency House party and sewing tunics I think.
* Yay to $3 thermometers from the UberBunningsWarehouse. A Bunnings large enough to have a Cafe... And cunning staff who either know exactly where everything is or have worked out that if they sound confident and give exact coordinates on the far side of the store, you will never find them again to complain if the coordinates are wrong - only half an aisle wrong.
Just checked the thermometer* on the back wall outside - it says 36 degrees, but it is in a sheltered paved area (though no sunlight). Suspect it is always going to be a few degrees hotter than official - sorry to anyone working on projects in the back yard/garage over summer.
In the lounge it is currently 28 degrees, though I have been decadent and just put on the aircon. The house is well enough insulated that you don't need the aircon for the first day well above 30 degrees, but the cumulative effect of the second is enough to bump it up.
Christmas cards and letters are mostly posted, bar the package for Z family friends that we don't know the addresses of.
Shops were dangerous and I wandered out with ~2kg of cherries ($3 per ~500g bag), nectarines, grapes, dark drinking chocolate and a suprise for Z. Would have liked cheap strawberries for choc dipped strawberries, but not at $3+ per punnet. Not as bad as $6 per tiny punnet of raspberries. Roughly a dollar a spoonfull. Wonder if choc dipped cherries would work?
Time for Regency House party and sewing tunics I think.
* Yay to $3 thermometers from the UberBunningsWarehouse. A Bunnings large enough to have a Cafe... And cunning staff who either know exactly where everything is or have worked out that if they sound confident and give exact coordinates on the far side of the store, you will never find them again to complain if the coordinates are wrong - only half an aisle wrong.
