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.
Paul Hetherington is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra and Head of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) there. He has published ten full-length collections of poetry, including Burnt Umber (UWAP, 2016) and five poetry chapbooks, most recently Earth. His collection, Six Different Windows won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (poetry) and he was a finalist in the 2014 international Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition. He was also shortlisted for the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He recently completed an Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome.
