G'day Sharons & all to follow,
Wiped/Sharon, how bad does the wind chill have to be, for school to be cancelled? In all my schooling, I never had school cancelled because of weather. There were a few days when we did wonder if we'd be sent home because of the heat, but the problem there is, how to GET home safely... we'd have had to walk home in the blazing sun, and at least the schoolroom was made of thick sandstone. And the kids have been let out of school because of bushfires - it's happened at least twice while I've had kids at the local school.
Sharon/LDM - a frozen waterfall? I remember my sister showing me photos of her and her husband walking under a frozen waterfall in the Sixties - she said it was Niagara, I think. I find it hard to conceive of something that big freezing over. And for your cold - I hope you have some good honey. Best thing for a sore throat, a spoonful of honey from a beekeeper, rather than the commercial pasteurised stuff from the supermarket. Honey in the comb is even better - chewing that bit of beeswax seems to help soothe the throat for longer.
Today was the first day back at school (officially) for difficult child 3, for the new school year. We actually got him started yesterday, plus 'eased him in' on Tuesday, which was the first day back for teachers. While easy child 2/difficult child 2 was in the hospital getting a gastroscopy, I got difficult child 3 to do his English worksheets.
So this week so far, he's got a lot of work done. He finished his work just a few minutes before our usual knock-off time and asked if we could go to the beach - a perfect reward. He'd been worrying as he saw the sky clouding over, but the sun came out for us for another hour.
The water is warm - not tropically warm, just pleasant. The beach was almost empty, just a couple of fishermen on the rocks and one other swimmer, who chatted to me about his sister, an old friend of mine. My neurologist would have been very happy with me - I bobbed around in the water for over an hour, good exercise for me. I'm wearing contact lenses on swimming days, otherwise I'd lose my way and find myself heading for New Zealand instead of the beach. The sea is too rough for me to keep my glasses on, this is my only option.
I had a struggle persuading difficult child 3 that it was time to go home, but we needed to, the clouds were finally moving in with determination. Tonight Sydney is surrounded by storms. We're getting a little rain, not like other areas. One village not far south of us got an inch of rain in 40 minutes - there was probably none left by the time the storm got to us.
They've forecast grey skies and scattered showers for the next week now, not sure how much beach we can get in for a while, so I'm glad we had our swim today. Temperatures are dropping to a civilised level, hopefully we'll be able to get some sleep tonight.
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone.
Marg
. Hope you find a little time today to breath!!!! 
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Why they sabotage themselves over and over is a mystery to me. "if you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got". You would think by 23, he would get it. 
