The Little World

We are supposed to be having an Australian Spring – you know, balmy nights, sunny days, outbreaks of venomous spiders and snakes. The usual thing. Well, apart from today’s sighting of a shark in the local river during vacation time. That’ll make a nice change from the venomous bottom feeding fish and the giant jellyfish for the school holiday swimming classes…

No, I am not kidding. The only place in the river system that is safe to swim is downstream from the toxic garbage dump in Midland. If you don’t swallow, you’ll be fine…

My distress is caused by the cold and damp that is interfering with spray painting of the various model airplanes in the building line. Even if you discount the effects of the humidity on spray paint, the effect of cold on me is not a pretty sight. I have retreated to the house and bunkered up in front of the reverse-cycle with some masking tape and a model that needs it.

It must be like this in the northern hemisphere in the winter, but that is what they deserve for living there and it is unfair to inflict it upon we Australians. We have enough to cope with on a day at the beach…

Note: You can make good use of a shark if you have a bag of potatoes and a big pot of boiling oil. You can make belts out of snakes and feed the venomous spiders to the slightly-less-venomous lizards. But there is damn-all you can do with the giant jellyfish. Even the local Japanese people won’t eat ’em.