Just thought I’d state the bleeding obvious and let you know that it’s decidedly WET here at the moment.
Tropical Cyclone Billy is no threat to Darwin but we are certainly getting the benefit of the’spin off’ rain. It’s been raining here for days hence the gardening thing isn’t happening. The radio just announced a high level mould warning :-))) I guess I should take the opportunity of being trapped inside and tidy up the office. That way I can still lurk. Can I send anyone any mould, mildew, moss …. ??

No thanks .. ;) I live in one of the driest places on the planet(highest evaporation rates) and yet I still cannot keep bread in my kitchen longer than two days without mould appearing on it.

Isn’t that interesting. We just keep EVERYTHING …bread, wheat, rice, noodles etc in the fridge or freezer.

that is inneresting… up here we have no problems with mould, although a little white mould sometimes appears on t-shirts if left folded in the wardrobe too long…

I was once told that to cultivate the mould that appears in bread, the ideal condition is at 4C and in the dark, kinda like the inside of a fridge…

At this time of the year anything made of leather turns green, mould grows on doors, walls, ceilings, concrete, pavers … and nothing dries.
You get out of the shower, dry yourself and are just as wet as if you hadn’t bothered; clothes under cover hang wet for days unless you bring them inside on a drying rack under a fan or put them in a tumble drier; paper looses it’s crispness … I know all that sounds dreadful but all the plants are green and soft and it actually feels pleasantly cool. I slept last night without even having the ceiling fan on. Up till now it’s been ‘thank god for the aircon’; and the rain isn’t cold if you have to go out in it.
The tourist commission advertises this as the ‘Green Season’. It’s spectacular to see the rivers flowing fast, waterfalls thundering down, the wet lands thriving with wildlife. There times when the normally flat sea is churned up into sandy waves and the surf boards and wind surfers come out.
It sounds so good I think I should live there ;-)

LOL! Can I send anyone any mould, mildew, moss…. ??
No thanks Crinkle, just had my lunch :)

Crinkle said:

At this time of the year anything made of leather turns green, mould grows on doors, walls, ceilings, concrete, pavers … and nothing dries.
You get out of the shower, dry yourself and are just as wet as if you hadn’t bothered; clothes under cover hang wet for days unless you bring them inside on a drying rack under a fan or put them in a tumble drier; paper looses it’s crispness … I know all that sounds dreadful but all the plants are green and soft and it actually feels pleasantly cool. I slept last night without even having the ceiling fan on. Up till now it’s been ‘thank god for the aircon’; and the rain isn’t cold if you have to go out in it.
The tourist commission advertises this as the ‘Green Season’. It’s spectacular to see the rivers flowing fast, waterfalls thundering down, the wet lands thriving with wildlife. There times when the normally flat sea is churned up into sandy waves and the surf boards and wind surfers come out.
It sounds so good I think I should live there ;-)

Nothing quite like the Top End in the Wet. I could live without the Build Up though. I do love the Wet. Hubby carries on about “wow all this rain”, when the windscreen wipers are still on intermittant. I tell him its not ‘real rain’ till you have to pull over on the side of the road ‘cause you can’t see your bonnet. And to him, two flashes of lightening is a storm. To me, lightening on lightening is a storm.

Still, we have had some decent showers here in Brisvegas this year that qualify as both ‘real rain’ and ‘storms’.