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Nice blog Marguerite, I felt like I was experiencing it with you! I have experienced that kind of heat and humidity in Goa, and power cuts. They have a lot of those due to the relatively basic power system. Some places have an electrician on call 24/7, in case!

Hi Marguerite, great blog, sounds wonderfull to me, but can see what you mean about the humidity, it must be exhausting, still sounds very romantic,

Hey Marguerite, you have such interesting blogs. I'd happily have swapped weather these last few days (until today anyway). The last 4 days we have had terribly strong winds, whipping up dust and burning the foliage on our plants (and even snapping some of the more delicate plants) and even taking out the power last night. Isn't it funny how different the weather can be even in the same country.

Hope your dinner goes well and with out any power failure.

Geeh Wolf, that sounds horrible those strong winds. And that is Melbourne area? I can remember this happening in WA when cyclone Alby many years ago now, swept all the way down the coast past Perth. It was April and we hadn't had any rain yet then. The paddocks were bare and here came this wind, the tail of the cyclone. The dust storms were terrible. The dirt was everywhere, the paddocks remainder fodder sand and dirt was in everyone's house. We had no power for 3 days! My freezer was full with meat. I had to keep it closed and only the top few layers had thewed out. I could chuck all that! Lucky it was our own baby beef, so not too much paid for. Lots of plants got windburned and swept away. This is a BIG country Wolf and we have the most diverse weather patterns, and really, all the time from one extreme in another.
Thank you nice people reading my blog. Where is Goa???

Ohh Marquerite , I couldn,t stand it that hot , I wouldn,t be able to function , I really go slow when i,m hot , it,s only because we are not use to it , I suppose over time it would become normal .

I hope you Have a nice meal out tonight , , hopefully it will have cooled down a bit .......
We went out for a meal Saturday night and only just made it through the snow and slipping about on the ice .what a contrast to you ............LOL

Great blog M, reminds me of when we lived in Florida, Hot and Humid, wheww!

I sympathize Marguerite, that's how Houston is in June, July and August...unbearably hot and humid! I always wonder how the pioneer women did it, having to wear full long skirts and long sleeves and long hair....and NO air conditioning! They deserve a medal and a statue just for that! =)

Great blog Margurite, I would enjoy the heat but not the humidity. Candle light sound very romantic but not the sweaty bit. We have no more snow in the Highlands of Scotland and the temp. was a warm 10C. Not as warm as you LoL

Margurite...Goa is an area that runs down the west coast of India. We have an apartment there where we holiday. Lovely country/culture/people and way of life but the heat and humidity at certain times of year gets you! Especially building up to the monsoon season that starts around May.

Thank you Pottygardener, I must have paid more attention when I was doing geography at school! Do you have pictures of that area and your holiday apartment? It would be very interesting for us to see that. Amy it did cool down a wee bit, but not much for the evening. I was not too hot, just right and I love it hot. There was no breeze whatsoever, the trees were as still as could be.
Today it's gone a bit windy and the clouds, which were angry dark grey ( I took pics ) have burst open and thank heaven, we have rain! But it is still hot, about 34. It was really hot at lunchtime sitting on the terrace eating lunch. The ceiling fan just seemed to blow hot air over us.

I can't imagine the humidity, but we could definitely do with some of your heat - well, for our summer, anyway! LOL ! I sympathise with you about the loss of electricity. Not easy to cope with.

Thank you Spritzhenry. It is not so bad, those electricity outages, we have several a year, also for maintenance. Good excuse to be out in the garden, as you can't do anything inside! I am so used to all of that, I am even starting to enjoy these pre historic times.
If you want to imagine the humidity: have a steaming hot shower, turn it off and feel the heat around you. Or have a sauna, lol.
Talking about heat, today is very pleasant, we had some rain and it is lovely and cool!

There are a few photo's in my collection Marguerite, you actually helped me with the name of one, Rangoon Creeper? The last time we were there it was still pretty much like a building site as they had not long been completed and the communal gardens were due to be started. So I hope on our next visit there will be lots to see and photograph. I have however uploaded a few photo's.

So, you mean to say that Quisqualis indica you actually saw in India? I had it in my garden in Darwin, it is semi dormant there. First I thought it was dying, but then I saw new shoots coming out and it grew all back nicely. Lots of leaves and flowers. I will go and visit your pages and see what you've uploaded. Thanks for the tip Pottygardener. I probably didn't realise the photo's were taken in India,lol.

So much going on on GOY Margerite you couldn't possibly remember everything you have seen!

Great blog girl, ahh the heat & all that goes with it, I miss it and still feel alive when encounter it. There is a smell of everything alive & growing in the gardens. A wildness that we can never experience in our cold climes.

Hi Adoons, you mention just the right thing: the smell. At the moment it smells moldy muffy and just like that old castle smell. It's the ground and the mulch on top of it, the ground stays damp. I bet you before long I will get those stinking mushrooms again, stinkhorns they are called. Looking pretty, but the smell unbearable. I have to get plastic gloves and pull them outof the ground and put them in a plastic bag, tie the knot and throw them in the bin! I do not want them as mulch on the compost heap as they will only multiply. Things are growing whilst you look at them, the grass needs mowing once a week now. Incredible. Suddenly new shoots of gingerplants, variegated leaved species are coming up, and the next day they've doubled in size. A bit like the Day of the Triffids here! I rush through the garden to keep on top of the weeds, of course they love it too. There is no doubt Adoons, everything around me is alive.

You hit the nail on the head, what about those snakes & spiders you never mentioned?? We hitched hiked the E. coast of Aussie when "young" and got bitten the first day by a spider. We had a blast!!

Well Adoons, if you are there to tell the story you haven't had a poisonous one, as some can be fatal! But sure, spider bites can be very nasty and can require hospitalisation. I did mention pests, especially snakes, browse through the earlier blogs of mine. I must do one on the redback and the scorpions we had. Nice little darlings! So when did you cross the Nullarbor? Where you on holidays in aus?

Cross the what???? Years ago , 70's we hitched hiked right up through Queensland to the Barrier reef, but rides were far & few in between so we gave up after a month & came back down to Sydney. Met some real nice people, caught a lot of fish & thus survived on a small budget. Yikes to be young.
I also grew up in scorpion country (South Africa) where we use to catch the little critters, coraled them and made them mad. had our time with snakes, spiders, etc. Glad my garden is safe here, as I am a snake "attracter"LOL.

Hi Adoons, I already know you have only been in the East of the country. You have to cross the Nullarbor to go to Western Australia. Null arbor of course meaning no trees and there are none for 1200 kms crossing the desert between Adelaide and Perth. That sounds interesting, were you born in South Africa? You know from what I have seen of it ( pictures only ) it looks a lot like Western Australia. I have a friend born in Durban and living on Vancouver island. Do you miss the land?