Oh my god, what has happened to the weather. Last week it was hot, hot, hot and we were wondering when the cool change was going to come. I had assumed that it would slowly get cooler and cooler and we could get to enjoy that lovely in between time, the change of seasons. But no, yesterday morning we woke to 10 degrees!! Freezing!!! So I had to do some digging around and find the alpaca blankets for the bed and the lounge, my alpaca coats and more importantly my alpaca slippers. With no heating in the apartment, and the apartment being concrete, it got rather cold and I spend a good part of the day on the lounge with my warm and toasty alpaca slippers on snuggled under a blanket. With a strong on shore wind blowing in from the ocean outside was not any more pleasant.
It seems that the early winter may be the fault of the Chinese. I was reading in the paper how in Beijing they have been seeding the clouds in order to end the drought that is engulfing them at the moment. This cloud seeding unfortunately resulted in snow for them, the second of the season and both of which have been caused by cloud seeding. The first snow fall was the earliest in history for them and this latest one obviously has affected our weather patterns. And of course this was the day that we were doing a harbour lights tour in a junk, invited by the company that handled our shipping once it arrived in Hong Kong. They certainly go all out to welcome you to Hong Kong and make sure you are settling in well. But it would be held on this freezing day, and the wind off the harbour made it even colder. Not to worry, lots of yummy food and wine, rugged up in jumpers and jackets with new people to chat to against the back ground of spectacular lights, many now welcoming Christmas, made the weather easier to cope with.
Today the weather has begun to warm up again, so with clear blue sky and the warmth of the sun warming my back, I made the trek into town to meet Bridget and then out for a walk around the hills behind her apartment. It still amazes me that you can be so close to one of the most densely populated areas in the world, yet see nothing but trees a bubbling brooks and hear nothing but the call of birds. By the weekend the weather is expected to be back up around 20 degrees and by mid next week we should be basking in 26 degree heat. Lets hope the long term weather forecasters actually get it right.
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