Chilly mornings

Apparently one of the reasons Canberra is situated where it is (i.e no mans land between Sydney and Melbourne) was that planners wanted to have a capital city which experienced 90 days of frost a year.

There was a thought (and I'm sure this must be seeped in abundant prejudice of the day 90 odd years ago) that the bracing climate lead to a healthier constitution and a more intelligent /productive population.

Obviously we don't get the bitingly cold winters of Warsaw (-20) and there doesn't seem as many chilly mornings (where you have to use your supermarket loyalty card to scrape the ice off the car windscreen) as in the UK, but nevertheless we've had a few days recently dropping to -4 or -5.

The one really positive thing about winter though, is that the clear sky during the day is often an absolutely beautiful blue.

Amy took this picture of our outside tap yesterday. I didn't even know it leaked until we found the stalactite below.