Minus 2, feels like minus 6, said the weather report for Molesworth at 6.30am a couple of days ago and not much warmer today.

When we left here at 10, the frost was still on the pepperberry bushes, very pretty I think.

Each year we have a family of kookaburras arrive for the first few weeks of real winter cold, usually after the Solstice. Right on cue, here is the dad – looks like he’s shivering to me.