The Rains are here!

And thank god for that!

"Petrichor-the smell of fresh rain after a prolonged warm, dry period" coined, appropriately, by a couple of Australian scientists.

(The nearest webcam image overlooking the airport)

This morning, while pondering the dark, stormy sky heading our way and how it would fare leading up to my morning swim, our lovely 80-something, totally with-it neighbour across the way shared her 'I-told-you-so' moment with me. Our neighbour, directly next-door to myself, is a genius of sorts and a real genuine nice, if shy, guy. He's already completed a degree in some crazy complex science (I forgot what it is, perhaps it only sounded it at the time?) and now he's doing a double of nursing/paramedics. His aim, when we moved in he shared, was to gain a scholarship to the UK to practice o'er yonder in paramedicine.

Although now his heart has allowed other plans get in the way and, as Nancy said, 'it's always the determined, individualistic ones that fall the hardest, when they do".

The other night my sister and I visited him to meet a few kittens he had been looking after over the weekend and I asked him about his UK plans. He was brimming with excitement when he told me that even if he was accepted for this once in a lifetime opportunity, he would probably reject because things are going so well.

Well good on him I say! Its so lovely to find such simple pleasures in life (though some wouldn't count love as always a simple pleasure, it comes with its fair amount of falls and disapointments)