It was minus 4 in Canberra when I left last Monday morning but that did not worry me as I was heading for Darwin where I would be spending the week. The weather report was showing a ‘cool’ 30 degrees, was I looking forward to that? Caroline dropped me off at the airport early so that she could head straight to the office, and I had a couple of hours to kill, so grabbed a coffee and sat in the lounge, with newspaper. It truly was a beautiful day in Canberra, really sunny but to bl**dy cold for me, I do like the warmth in my bones. My flight was called, I had checked in the day before so I knew where I was sitting, by the window where I like to be. The flight time
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