Posts Tagged ‘munters’
Ides of March
Storms in Melbourne on Saturday were unseasonal , unexpected and terrifying.
Age Newspaper Report on Storms in 1925
Roads quickly flooded , traffic ground to a standstill and shopping centres , cinemas and sporting arenas where deluged with lashings of rain and hail stones.
Those munters out shopping were possibly oblivious to the chaos all around them until it became time to leave the store.
Buckets of water were pouring down the front of the windows of the new shopping complex I was in , torrents cascading through light fittings and electric doors unopenable and shops computers all failing .
The get away car normally parked in the underground car park was mercifully parked in the street. Despite rapidly rising , swirling floodwaters , doors were opened and shopping flung in .The only casualty in the hasty departure was a thong that floated away on the rushing torrent.
A terrifying ordeal began as a path was forged through the rapidly flooded roads which were quickly becoming impassable . Parked cars were becoming submerged and inner city streets were unusable. A circuitous route was employed and a safe arrival home was managed by using all the non damaged and unaffected roads.
raining cats and rabbits?
It was an unnerving experience . One that truly tested the tenaciousness of even the most sturdy munter.
Melbourne Storm
Change of Season
The end of Summer beckons . It has been another long hot glorious summer with cicadas heralding dusk and parrots squabbling as they feed from the local flowering gum trees.
Mornings are darker and days are perceptibly cooler .Bright light is still common in the middle of the day and the odd hot day still occurs but with decreasing frequency.
Olga does Bags
February is traditionally the hottest month and the devasting bushfires in victoria of february 09 attest to this .Record breaking temperatures , combined with strong winds set the dry bush around melbourne alight with a sickening ferocity and loss of life.
Easter is early April , pre – season footy has started and the shops are advertising their autumn fashions . Summer sales are over , op -shops have recycled unwanted Christmas presents and young people are back in the daily grind of school , study , sport , and part – time work . Tertiary students commence on 1march after a long summer hiatus and workers and employers alike have long been back in the routine.
Gold Shoes
Time out for Munters to enjoy some leisure . Grab it while you can . It promises to be a long cold winter.
Its over
The mornings and nights are drawing in with less daylight and a subtle drop in temperature . An end to summer is in sight . The school holidays are also drawing to a close . What stretched ahead with endless possibilities and exciting challenges is nearly ended albeit all too quickly for parents and kids everywhere. A new school year is upon us and the difficulties and tasks that entails are to be faced . The summer hiatus is almost over and schoolyards everywhere will be again full of noise and bustle leaving empty houses in its wake . Munters everywhere will again be just getting on with their
work
toys
life’s , and all that involves , ie ; working ,shopping , caring for family and friends . Summer will have just become a memory and a repository for stored passions until the next long hot summer holidays roll around .