What Do You Call Summer?

Jun 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM
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Timm's birthday always creeps up on me somehow. Why do I always wonder if perhaps it is in July after all? Then there's the fact that it is tomorrow, because of the international date line and all. My dentist asked me the other day how old my brother was and I just couldn't figure it out because I was so tense from an accumulation of too many painful tooth treatments this year and the anticipation of yet another. But I'm not as confused as many people are about the Southern Hemisphere. Someone really did once ask me what we call summer. She thought maybe we would call it winter. I have lots of stories like that, but I won't share them, because you know, there are many countries in the world I have no idea about.

Tim and Rob

I think this is all just a long winded way of saying Happy Birthday Timothy Tane.

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Aw gee thanks! And here it is a grey old day - and that's not just the whiskers or that this is the last sub-50 birthday either. Low foggy cloud all day. Saturday was quite different - beautifully sunny but it took until 11am for the thermometer to climb over freezing. Also on Saturday Ben decided to come out to the pub with me (All Blacks 14 v France 10 for those that care) and he's obviously growing up - his present to me was to shout me two beers!

And "summer" is (very) loosely defined (in my mind at least) as that period of time from when seniors leave in mid-November until a week or so before the end of daylight saving in April. (Technically its Dec - Jan - Feb but that doesn't seem like long enough when the sun shines until 8:30pm and it is still bright at 10:30pm!) Next week I'm away with Telecom again in Auckland. I need a new phone (mine's held together with sellotape) and Telecom have just launched a new 3G mobile network so I sense an upgrade coming along. Something that can link to my Google toys would be perfect.

sub-50! Now that my brain isn't paralysed by fear of pain, I can do maths again.

Another family definition of summer is the shortest interval in any 12 month period between swims in the lake or canyoning in the Motutapu River.

What Do You Call Summer?

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