Peter Beattie, Brain Surgeon

[silentC]

Yeah that's OK for you lot. In the middle of winter it's getting dark here by 4:30, so if I knocked off an hour earlier, I'd get about half an hour if that. And who wants to do anything outside in the middle of winter? Too bloody cold.

The other thing is that at this time of the year, the sun is coming up at 5:30, so who can sleep in anyway?

[craigb]

The other thing is that at this time of the year, the sun is coming up at 5:30, so who can sleep in anyway?

The bloody birds start-up at around 4:45 at our place.

[Grunt]

The bloody birds start-up at around 4:45 at our place.

A fricken kamakzi bird smacks into my bedroom window most mornings at 5am or there abouts. Not once but about 5 or 6 times before it decides it has a headache and better go lie down.

[Rossluck]

The thing that people forget it that it's damned hot here. In summer, when you work in the heat all day, the last thing you want is to have that heat prolonged. Mostly we scuttle inside to air conditioners. When you look at summer temperatures in Brisbane, that hover between 30 and 36, you need to incorporate the wicked humidity that makes it seem like 42.

I remember that I was in Mt Isa when daylight saving was first mooted for QLD, and most people were horrified. Buzzer's on the right track, I believe, because winters up here are outstanding (as a converse result of the wicked summers). More daylight saving in winter would be great.

[Dr Jan Itor]

More daylight in winter would be great.

Surely you mean more daylight during everybody else's winter? We don't need daylight saving during our winter (the 10 days of the ekka) because that's the only time it's cold.

[Rossluck]

Surely you mean more daylight during everybody else's winter? We don't need daylight saving during our winter (the 10 days of the ekka) because that's the only time it's cold.

Daylight saving, Doc, daylight saving. I'd never really thought about it until Buzzer suggested it, but it sounds good to me. In winter I often go down to the shed and work as fast as I can before I get the call to dinner, and extra hour would be great. I might even beat the rooster.

In summer I go down and turn the air con on. Yes, an air con in the shed. Can't live without it.

[Doughboy]

Lets get one thing straght. Queensland (gods own country) does not have winter!!!!!

We moved from Canberra to Brisbane in July 1996 and within two weeks of moving there I was riding my motorbike into the city from Eight Mile Plains, the weather was a glorious 25 degrees and I was wearing a t-shirt and jeans!!! I would still be up there but SWMBO decided that we should have a family and bring the kidlets up in Canberra where we have winter days that are lucky to rise above 0 degrees.

I know that there are other folks out there that have much lower temps than these but at least we know what cold is!


Pete

[Bluegum]

Yep Doughboy I have to agree with you on that one. I lived in the Hawkesbury valley for 13 years before I moved here and winter was the first thing I noticed that really didn't exist. Summers knocked me about though. I found it a lot more humid than what I was used to in Sydney, the first summer was a real killer. Put an aircon in this year so it should be a bit better here at home.