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.
Dr James Vicars has conducted extended research in the areas of biography and fictional biography as well as writing an account of the life of Australia’s first woman aviator, Millicent Bryant. A writer of nonfiction as well as fiction and poetry, he has ongoing literary interests in the contemporary novel, life writing and twentieth century English and Australian literature, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the Eleanor Dark Foundation. His other academic interests include hermeneutics, critical and literary theory, and continental philosophy and Indian philosophy. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of New England where he teaches part-time.
