Oh SUMMER where art thou?

Mid-way through watching (surruptitiously) Blue Crush, I'm starting to get a bit tired of this Winter thing. It seems like it's been cold, cold, cold for the longest time. Winter started early and I can hardly remember what a hot day feels like now. My lawn is constantly water-logged. My washing takes days to dry. The verandah is growing moss. The dew still sparkles on the grassy bank at sunset. The sun rises behind the mountain, goes from there to behind the big pine tree, behind the garage block, then goes down. We get a few rays between mountain and tree - that's it. And they're cold rays at that.

This morning I dropped my son and 3 friends off at the kid's holiday club (VBS I guess) at church. My car has no heater and we had to put the fan on, windows wide open, to defrost the inside of the windscreen. When I got back to the office my toes were numbingly sore. The shoes I wore today can't be driven in so had to come off for the trip.

Watching surfing movies, girls with lightly burned noses in bikinis - well, it ain't helping none. I want the nice hot sun back, I want to sit on my lawn without freezing up. And I can't wait for my bumper-crop of self-seeding tomatoes to appear.