All hail Spring

Today is the first day of the last month of Spring not that you would know that by looking at our weather. 

Our government treats us like simpletons. We have to have the four seasons divided equally into three months each. This means that the actual weather really doesn't reflect the seasons because, as anyone with an ounce of sense would know when thinking about it, our seasons are more likely to be affected by the earth itself (and the moon and the sun and so one) rather than by some man dictated random counting of days and months. Lordy, we don't all even follow the same calendar on this good planet. 

In times past the seasons were marked with things like the equinox and the solstices. 

Daylight saving used to cover about 4 or 5 months - typically when the weather was warmer and people wanted to be outside later. A few years ago it was decided that this was too complicated so we get 6 months on and 6 months off. Which means that it starts too early and ends too late. And don't get me started on the states that do have it and those that don't. There is a town on the border between Queensland and New South Wales that has two different time zones during daylight saving time. If you live on one side of the street and work on the other - well you get the idea!

And while I am on this particular rant ... EASTER! Some twat in government decided that Easter - which is held on the first new moon after the spring/autumn equinox and is therefore a moveable feast - should have a non-moveable date. Like the first weekend in whatever. 

Moving on. 

Today, the first day of the last month of spring (in case you forgot) produced this ...

a really decent downpour or several of hail. 

So I spent the day knitting ..

And while I was waiting for Himself to come home from the Shed where he ended up watching the Cup (oh yes, today was Melbourne Cup day - the race that stops the nation - or not anymore) I was listening for music to add to the scrabble list. I came across another cover that beats the original. I now have three - Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence, John Farnham's version of Help and now this one. 
 

The lyrics. My god the lyrics.