It's finally cold enough

• to eat pancakes for breakfast. (Potato and garlic pancakes this morning. Yummy!)
• to wear my favourite snuggly jerseys in the evening.
• to not have to carry around 98 litres of water for fear we will die. Miserably. In the desert.
• to watch all the first-years from places like Darwin or Cairns huddle in corners and talk about how! cold! it! is! this winter thing that they have never before experienced.
• to sleep with my nose under the blankets.

And (for probably only the next half hour until I have to go outside), I am once again in love with winter*.
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*Well, okay, autumn. I am in love with the idea of winter.