Wednesday Canberra weather: regardless of any thing Neil Finn may have said, you don’t really have your own personal weather bubble. You can easily test this by travelling from the Woden Valley to the northside on foggy morning. Or getting on a plane in December and flying to Helsinki.
So those of you who are in Canberra today will probably experience much the same weather as each other. Warm to hot and slighty sticky. The weather equivalent of spilling cocoa on your new trousers.
Chemical interventions such as deodorant, sunscreen, mosquito repellent and anti-histamines are strongly indicated. Consider long before you commit to opaque tights, however hairy your legs are. Once the sun is over the yard arm, applications of gin and tonic may be beneficial.
Associate Professor Maria Takolander has published numerous papers theorising creativity. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, The End of the World (Giramondo, 2014) and Ghostly Subjects (Salt 2009), which was shortlisted for a Queensland Premier’s Prize. The winner of the inaugural ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, Maria is also the author of The Double (and Other Stories) (Text, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The recipient of two Australia Council grants, she is currently writing a novel for Text. She teaches at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria.
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