Together we lie on the bed under the blast of airconditioning. It is 2.30pm. Normally a nothing time, we’re between meals, between television programs, now it his once-upon-a-napping-time.
We lie there, tired from a lack of sleep the previous night. The evenings stick to our sleep like a demon’s breath – tormenting, and vile. We toss and turn and our days aren’t much better.
My daughter copes. She’s out doing crafts, drawing, whereas my son and I fight off sleep. He kneads the fleshy spillover of my breasts – well he tries to, I bat away his hand. He’s too old to do that now without some sort of consequence (isn’t he?) and this saddens me.
We endure the heat as best we know how, and I make thanks for our gift of airconditioning. The papers predict mass power shortages from our extraordinary heatwave this week.
And so I turn to my son, give him a cuddle, and we turn our faces back to the cold air kisses.
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I’ve heard about the Australian heatwave. Hottest for 100 years.
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Yes, i thought about you when they said Melbourne was above 40 degrees for 5 days straight, or however long it’s been now…forget what that converts to for your american readers, but it’s mighty hot.
But at least you do have aircon. And a bathtub for cool baths as emergency backup for if the electricity goes out.
And i feel a bit guilty as today here in Sydney they are predicting a top of 29 degrees…
I hear you.. I so hear you…. though we had to escape back to the city to find granparental airconditioning… and it’s my chubby arm pits that my boy loves to grab… but apart from that I am so there with you!
Squirting a water bottle on your face and head in the middle of the night works for abit lol.
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Hang in there.
We have only got a prediction of 35 here today and I feel like that is a walk in the park compared to Victorian heat.
My husband says the state has gone crazy with the escalating temperatures.
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Argh, it sounds horrendous. We have had some stinkers here in Sydney too but you and Adelaide are hands down hottest. My friend in Melb just texted me to say there are 500 000 without power, it’s 39 degrees and the show her husband is starring in just got canceled for the night because of the power losses…
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It is 11.30pm Sat night. Looks like the cool(ish) change is here.
THANK GOD!
We survived babe. We survived.
Lets hope it doesn’t happen again for another hundred years!
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