General News
16 December, 2024
This summer is starting to wear on me already
The famous line "Winter is coming" from Game of Thrones is synonymous with the pending arrival of cooler weather.
The famous line "Winter is coming" from Game of Thrones is synonymous with the pending arrival of cooler weather.
While all eight seasons of the HBO TV show focused on the coldest, harshest months, within the lore of George R. R. Martin's books, there is something known as The Great Summer.
Also called the Long Summer, it is a season 'sent by the gods' that never ends as a reward for all men being good.
When I woke up this morning at 7am, the mercury read 25°C. If this was a reward for being good, I would go out of my way to be bad.
No amount of coal in my Christmas stock would incentivise me if the weather continues to hover around 35°C as our dear friends at the Bureau forecasted this week.
It's raining at the Brisbane cricket test match as I write this, which further twists the figurative knife. My watch read 37°C.
We might be in for a Long Summer, but much like the Western Highway, each hot day is going to wear on me like a B-Double.