I’ve been talking about the rainy weather a lot lately, and I decided to have a look at just how rainy it’s been here lately. Firstly, yes, it rained again today. Not heavily, but for several hours.
Looking back over the records, since 12 December, three weeks ago, Sydney has had only four days with no rain, out of 22 (counting today). Furthermore, the forecast for the next seven days indicates it’s most likely to rain every single day.
Last summer was ridiculously hot, and sparked all those horrible fires all over the place. This summer is not only very wet, but also very cool. Maximum temperatures have been mostly in the low 20s (°C), which is cool enough that it plausibly feels almost like winter.
The other news today is the Sydney COVID outbreak continues to grow, although we had only 7 new cases today. The state government announced increased restrictions today, including for the first time a legal requirement to wear masks in most public places, which will be enforced with fines from Monday. All other states and territories of Australia have re-closed their borders to people coming New South Wales. Sydney is currently partitioned into three zones, two of which we’re not allowed to enter. In the most restrictive zone, people are not allowed to have any visitors in their homes.
With all this, I’m not optimistic about my market stall happening on 10 January. But who knows… wait and see, I guess.
In work stuff, I wrote a good amount of Irregular Webcomic! scripts today. Just a few more to polish off tomorrow, and I can do photography on Monday. I mostly stayed inside today, because of the rain, but I did go out for a brief walk just after lunch, during a break. I saw several kookaburras – it looked like a group of young ones hanging out and learning to hunt for food, under the eyes of parents. I got another photo with my phone – not great, but definitely closer than I would normally expect to get to one of these birds.
New content today:
if you are reserving a car and stuff like that and need to pay for them in advance, you should try to cancel them as soon as possible – you get more of the money back, and the chances of cancellation of the whole market are too big.
Of course – my country has almost 4000 new confirmed cases and the quarantine is only at half strengh – your country is paranoid in comparison…
stay safe – a few more months for the vaccines.
I’m not using a hire car for this new market – they have stalls with tables, so I don’t need to bring my own. Which means my own car will be big enough… I hope. Unfortunately the previous cancellations were all with very little notice.