Oh really!!! What did you expect in Jan? Glorious sunshine
Winters in OZ are crap too, everything shuts down, freezing at night, nothing to do.
Some of us do like the snow...i have never felt so mindlessly bored since i got to OZ..your advice is just an opinion, over the head, gone, makes no difference.

It was the Australia Day bank holiday yesterday.

Dead as a doornail!

yes..and how boring was that!! nothing open. Too hot to care. Stayed in all day..didn't fancy having another BBQ, sitting in a park or beach

God give us snow so we can have fun

not where I was it wasn't. You really really need to get out more. Get a job in maccas like the others you so despise, get some money saved and get the hell out of here.

I don't normally get involved in these discussions but I had to share.

For at least 2-3 months of the year my son can't go outside to play because it's too hot and humid. Try doing anything outside in 35C+ heat, it's not fun. After 10 mins you are dripping with sweat and breathing in humid air does nothing to help your lungs. You don't even get to see the neighbours because they are all inside cooling off in the AC.

And our winters are just as cold as the UK, if not colder.

I'm not saying your opinion isn't valid, but asking you to see that there are two sides to a coin.

maccas and other fast food takeaway places only employ 14-18yr olds. Anyone older than that who works for them is either an asst or shift manager (usually in their 20s) or those who own the store.

I stayed home with the fan on full blast (no air con), and drank copious amounts of bland aussie beer

Hmmm, might do the same today

Yep..me also indoor again, Daughter and her mates all complaining about how hot and bothered they are...geez what do they expect me to do about it?

Like Sue mentioned...all those stuck in Blighty complaining of how cold it is there...try doing things outside in 35+ heat..then lets see who complains.. they have alot to learn

Something that used to be popular in famalies in OZ with young ones, was to get them into their swim gear and then have them run through the sprinklers or spray them with the hose. A trip to the local council public pool can be a good outing too for the majority of us without a pool. Beaches get too hot and crowded.

It's very hard and energy draining to try and do much of anything when it gets up in the 30s or 40s. At least when it's cold you can warm up, harder to cool down when it's hot and you could dehydrate or overheat too. Those who haven't been to a country like OZ before can find it difficult to imagine, they are just thinking of the marketing image of sun drenched beaches etc.

I've been in OZ since mid 90s and still am not used to it! I have even met Aussies who ahve spent all their life in Perth and hate summer because even having lived all your life here is no guarantee of being acclimatised to the place!

We did this a couple of times during the hols, the first time both myself and my son burned quite badly (factor 30 cream) after 40 minutes in the pool, the 2nd time we went and it was closed due to bluebottles getting into the pool on high tide, so we went to an indoor council run one and both boys now have ear infections. I'm hoping they are ok for school on Tuesday.

Loved it when my kids were little we didn't have much money but we did do stuff like make a tent out of some old sheets and I would make cakes and biscuits on a night so that they could decorate them during the day. We had a book that had 101 fun things to do when its wet or something like that from the library, now they are older and all they want to do is play computer games cos it's cool . I miss playdough and colouring in

God, that's a bad run of luck. Hope they are better very soon too.

They should be, doctor gave them both drops and we have another 3 days, fingers crossed. Thanks for the good wishes

Dark, dreary days? Give me that any day over -20C, a foot of snow and being so cold that you can't do anything. Winters in the USA are not for sissies!

I had that book, we made so much salt dough, cooked it, painted it and gave it away as gifts, the kids loved it. - oh happy days, I'm lucky if I see mine other than meal times or when I drag them out of the house