Today

Finally got myself a bicycle - a mountain bike, with shocks and big knobby tires. And you ask me, for how much? FREE! So I rode into town, and went swimming in Lake Wakatipu:

It's not as cold as expected. Here's what it looks like from another angle:

So the bike will be worked on and wheels trued and derailers and brakes adjusted. Another project to keep the skeletons at bay.

Christmas is approaching. That's what the two channels we get at the flat tell me repeatedly. But it's sunny. And summer. Soon we will have a list of how the entire Southern Hemisphere is the antithesis of the Northern. I think Northern will be the 'yin' but that is up for debate.