Two Days Till The Spring Equinox

And we've got snow again. A FB friend was complaining about 39C temperatures in Sydney as their autumnal equinox approaches. Weather Weirding continues.

The footprints are mine, I took this just after I'd been out to put down the last of a bag of bird seed. Ten minutes later there was a terrible racket. Four crows and two magpies were fighting over the little patch of seed. When I appeared at the window, they all scarpered. I chucked some chopped up apple out as well because the seed did feel a little mean.

I went into town to get some human food and some more bird food. I ended up spending about the same amount on each and the bird food definitely won on volume. I was tempted to get the bus home, but duty called me to distribute some of the seed and suet pellets I'd bought down by the river to the ducks, swans and pigeons.

The ducks and swans didn't want to come out of the water, I guess because like us, once you're in you don't feel the cold as much and coming out can feel as bad as going in in the first place. (sorry that's quite a complicated colloquial sentence for people for whom English is not their first language, sorry guys). Anyway, the pigeons got most of it, although I managed to spread some around the river bank.

While I was with the ducks the pigeons startled a couple of times. I looked over the other side of the river and saw a clever little teenage boy with a catapult firing pebbles at them. Dear friends, I did not do unto him as I would wish to be done by. I shouted "Yeah, I see you, you little..." and the rest is not for public consumption. He tried to tell me that he was just throwing snowballs, but by now I was in full Anglo-Saxon rant mode and he and his friend slinked off. So my good turn for the birds was let down by my poor show with humanity. Never mind, I'm glad I was there to stop a little cruelty.

It's supposed to get warmer tomorrow, but it's just started snowing again as it got dark, so it's time to turn the heating up and roast some vegetables.