Hoist By My Own Petard

   Here at The Political Wilderness, snarkily unto myself, I have been spending the Summer skirting around the edges of and skating away from the heat one normally associates with the season. It has been temperate and mild in my neck of the Temperate Rainforest.  A bit of misty rain here, a bit of heavy rain there, and a heap o' mild temperatures to indulge in.

   Well, didn't all that change in a hurry today.

  I can't even complain that it was THAT hot. A 'mere' 32 degrees at it's top. However it was one of those Sydney summer days, full of the humidity created by the previous days rain. And no breeze.  And nowhere that I could escape to outside the house due to the swarm of mosquitoes that this weather engenders. Not that I had time to because today was also Day 1 of School/Technical College for my 2 boys. So it was up at sparrow's and into the organised chaos at the beginning of the day, which passes in our house for a simulacrum of organisation in order to get to school on time. Then it was drive 20km to School/TAFE, only to find out that TAFE doesn't begin until next week. So then it was, drive 20km back home, get changed back into school uniform for #2 son & then back in the car for another 8km journey back to school, as he's doing a split School/TAFE Year 11, and when he's not at TAFE, he has to be at school. Sigh. Then, back home again for breakfast for myself. Which was followed by another trip back to school later in the afternoon to pick him up because I read the wrong bus time out to him from the timetable, for him to travel home on. I having read the Saturday timetable, instead of the Monday to Friday one, and, as a result, he would have had to wait another hour in the heat for the next bus. And I felt guilty. So...So I combined it with a trip to the shops to get bread and honey. As without creamed honey specifically to put on his muffin for breakfast, #1 son goes into a funk for the day.  So...you make the effort to keep them happy.

   Even though it was so damn hot in my car with the broken aircon!

  Which, as I say, will only teach me some sort of cosmic karmic lesson about not being so internally smug about having eluded the full force of summer, while my fellow Australians suffered manfully and womanly through heatwaves.

   Suffice to say, I won't be able to say much about the politics of today. Except to make 2 observations:

1. The Tony Abbott-led Coalition Opposition is 'All Politics, No Policy'.
2.  'Lobbygate' is all beat-up, no cover-up.

  Finally, I would just like to add that I have been playing with the design of my blog, in case you may have thought you had come to the wrong destination all of a sudden. As I said, it's a work-in-progress. Though, even when I decide on a format I am happy with, knowing me, I'll just change it all again when I get bored with it, or some enticing new designs come along to use.

Also, I'm still teaching myself how to use other functionalities associated with this blog template.

At least I'm having fun now though. And I will get busy with some more serious and thoughtful work soon.

    When it cools down I think. :)