Arriving in Adelaide on Sept 30th I'm cold. Coming down the East coast I'd gone from sleeping under just a sheet in Cairns, to adding in a blanket, then needing a duvet. My first week in Adelaide finds me sleeping huddled under 2 duvets. But it's Spring so things can only get better! Since last time all the leaves on the deciduous trees have appeared and anything that can flower is flowering with sweet smells filling the air and hayfever epidemics hitting the city! The sun is out and bright almost every day and the days are warm even if the nights are cold.
I start work in a pleasant practice in an area about 20 minutes walk from the CBD. It's an affluent urban area and I'm expecting little in the way of excitement compared to rural Victoria and The Territory. My colleagues are great and I find a room to rent with some students and borrow a bike to get to work. It's not exactly the highlife but it works.
Every day is sunny pretty much which helps with the daily cycle. The nights stop being as cold and the daytime temperature steadily rises as though the thermostat is being gently upped, everyso often there's a very hot day and my student housemates- saving on the aircon- pull down the blinds, inside and outside and sit inside with the lights on. Much as we would do in England on a wet, cold day. Disgusted by this I try sitting in the yard, overheat and decide maybe they're right, there is something to be said for a cool house when it's approaching 40 degrees!
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