We are back in the middle of a heat wave with temperatures hovering in the low 30s. Slowly we are figuring out how to deal with this impost - for the record our average January temperatures are around 26 C, which is very pleasant indeed.
The first adjustment is to take my daily bike rides at 6 am, as today, or late in the afternoon when things have begun, slowly, to cool down. A second is to retreat to Armidale's very good swimming complex (the municipal one and not the other three pools at UNE and TAS). We took Max there this morning and he had a whale of a time - almost literally. He spent a lot of time under water, coming up occasionally for air. For him, the other advantages of the pool are the water mats one can hire, an endless supply of ice-creams and slushies, and a large number of kids his age with whom he can relate.
The little kid making this posting, i.e. me, was also in the water with him splashing out, shadow boxing, jumping on his mat, pulling him off and those sorts of things often called horse play.
Of course I also took along my kindle and down-loaded a wonderful book by Nassim Taleb, an economics professor from New York, who has developed the policy idea of antifragility (one word). This concept incorporates ideas very similar to those I've developed in my writings over the last five years or so! I might ask to meet him during my up-coming 5 weeks in the US. So, even in hot weather one can meld work and play!
The pictures attached are obvious from my description above, so I'll not trouble you with captions!
By the way, when we got into the car to come home its external thermometer was reading 38C!!
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The first adjustment is to take my daily bike rides at 6 am, as today, or late in the afternoon when things have begun, slowly, to cool down. A second is to retreat to Armidale's very good swimming complex (the municipal one and not the other three pools at UNE and TAS). We took Max there this morning and he had a whale of a time - almost literally. He spent a lot of time under water, coming up occasionally for air. For him, the other advantages of the pool are the water mats one can hire, an endless supply of ice-creams and slushies, and a large number of kids his age with whom he can relate.
The little kid making this posting, i.e. me, was also in the water with him splashing out, shadow boxing, jumping on his mat, pulling him off and those sorts of things often called horse play.
Of course I also took along my kindle and down-loaded a wonderful book by Nassim Taleb, an economics professor from New York, who has developed the policy idea of antifragility (one word). This concept incorporates ideas very similar to those I've developed in my writings over the last five years or so! I might ask to meet him during my up-coming 5 weeks in the US. So, even in hot weather one can meld work and play!
The pictures attached are obvious from my description above, so I'll not trouble you with captions!
By the way, when we got into the car to come home its external thermometer was reading 38C!!
As
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