Oooooh winter must be on its way....

Thats right folks, turn your collars up to the wind and bury your hands in your pockets, it looks like winter is on its merry way forth.

Wanna know how I know?

They've turned the heated toilet seats on at work. Granted, a little early, mayhap a little presumptuous, what with the weather being still 30 odd degrees outside but still, they've cranked them right up and that way they'll stay. Don't get me wrong. A heated toilet seat is a joy, a companion to welcome you during the cold winter months when its rainy and sleety outside and you have to leave the warmth of your bed and stagger to the bathroom with your hair in disarray and your breath freezing solid and falling to the ground in front of you. You hover...the water looks so cooooooold...the rain on the window looks so cooooooold....you take the plunge...and it's like sitting on a sunbeam, supported by a ray of happiness.

Oh yes. They're good. They're very good. It's just that it's still pretty warm in these parts and sitting on a warm seat on a warm day can get to be a little hot. And a little uncomfortable.

Eeeeew.

Anyway.

We had a Sausage Sizzle last weekend. It was choice. It was the 220th-day-of-the-year-prayin'-for-a-good-harvest festival and we here at the International Division of City Hall decided to bring NZ to the masses. So we had a sausage sizzle. 150 bangers, 60 onions, 5 litres of tomato sauce, 2 litres of mustard, 48 cans of beer and 150 cans of orange juice. Thank-you very much. We sold out in 5 hours. Not too bad. Most of the beer was consumed by us - it's hot work cooking snags in the Japanese sun - and the locals took to the sausage sizzle like white on rice. I saw one chap who just didn't get the idea at all however and was trying to eat his super heated sausage and onions with his fingers while employing the bread simply as a plate...but apart from this obvious dunce it was a roaring success. A bunch of the JET teachers around the place came and helped out and a grand day was had by all, especially after the free sake rolled on out. Mmmmmmm. Free Sake. We were playing NZ music, selling Dutch beer, sizzling Japanese sausages and having a ball. You guys should come next year. they were bloody good sausies.
Hooroo.
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