It was 12 degrees celsius today.
Twelve degrees.
12 of them.
It's not a lot of degrees, is it?
Subtropical my bottom.
If you'd left me hanging outside mid-air without my thermals, I'd definitely have dropped off.
However, these bananas did not just spontaneously jump ship. Oh no... something has CHOMPED them off. My bananas! Can you see the whole hand that's missing? Or rather not see it, but see where it should be?
Now I know I should be jolted into action, up in the tree bagging and setting up all sorts of defensive structures. Spikes and cannons and things. However, it's 12 degrees.
A sort of inertia has come over me, and it's not going to depart until that thermometer reaches its teens.
8 comments:
I would love it to be 12 degrees. We are sitting at about 4 degrees right now and maybe made it to 7 degrees earlier today.
Sod this winter rubbish. I want to feel my toes again and I am fed up with the chilling wind through my hair. I do have a rather fetching pink knitted beanie on my head, though. Pure op shop, of course!
Good job you don't live in europe then. It may be convenient for popping over to St.Trop every now and then, but it can get decidedly parky here... A friend told me today that his partner's family, who live in Poland had -39 degrees at one point last Winter (and that's Celsius).
Oh noooooooo! What was it?? Ha! 12 degrees cold indeed! I'm sure I spied snow outside my window this week...
So . . . so what happened to the bannanas?
Esther
Or even bananas - I'm convinced the conventional spelling is wrong and there ought to be an extra n in there, or even several. It would suit them.
Esther
you know what, if I had bananas growing in my freezing back yard, which I wouldnt, but if I did..so to speak...and something was eating them....and I had to go out in the freezing cold and find out what it was....I just wouldnt...Id let em have the whole lot....brrrrrr just feeding the chooks and all the other animals then was like living on a farm , in the rain, cold, hay, feed, pellets, eggs,,......Im frozen...( and a whinge bag)
I have at least 40 clumps of banana palms around, and we have such trouble harvesting even one banana that most times we decide they're not worth the trouble. Bush turkeys are the main culprits, but also possums, flying foxes, and king parrots. Let's hope they leave the rest of the bunch!
Linda don't say that! How depressing. This is my fifth bunch and the first I have had a munching problem with... and I think I know why. The top of the banana plant touches another tree in my backyard, one that is well frequented by possums, and also I suspect, rats. I am going to trim the big tree today and sever the connection. Hopefully that will make a difference.
Suzanne, it's not whingeing when it's about the cold... and having to go out in it... at least here the days are generally lovely and warm. Generally.
Esther, I have a terrible feeling it might be rats... hopefully possums though, I prefer a possum to a rat several times over. Bananananas... I think the word should just be longer. Or have an optional length determined by the individual uttering the word.
Mrs Bok - 12 degrees is COLD!
Mark, Poland will never beckon to me in winter... never... I don't mind the cold when you have a proper cold-proof house to live in... but our home is colder in than out.... no insulation, tons of windows, high ceilings, timber floors and high set... it couldn't be better designed to let the cold in! I go outside in the mornings to thaw out.
Daffodil, 4 degrees? Cripes... I'd run far far away :) and pink beanies rock!
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