Friday, 28 December 2007

Compliments of the Season

Well I hope every one is enjoying the holiday season. For once our summer is actually being summer and it was nice to have a lot of sun on the solstice (our wedding anniversary - 3 years), of course it helps to be in the southern hemisphere. Though I must admit the December is usually out wettest month and there is now some concern for lack of water for the rest of the summer and into early autumn (ie March) which is our period of usually good weather.
Two thoughts I wanted to leave you with prompted mainly by the season:
  1. Why oh why would shepherds be out in the fields tending their flocks in the middle of winter?
  2. Do nun's habits remind anyone else of a Burkha?

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