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.
Antonia Pont writes poetry, short fiction and nonfiction, and novel-length prose works. Her writing has appeared in Meanjin, Cordite, Antic Magazine, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, Rabbit, TEXT, Gargouille, Axon, as well as international anthologies. She researches ontologies of creativity, practising theory and change, is Senior Lecturer in Writing & Literature at Deakin University, and a reviewer for Cordite.
