Record low temps in south-east Qld

Haven't really done much so far this week, packing and relaxing before the move next week mostly. Also I have an incredibly sore throat - so if there's anyone reading this that I havn't called for a long while, please accept my apologies, my my throat is just not up to it! I think I have glandular fever back again (damn!) - not much can be done, just have to ride it out and hope it gets better ASAP! Jazmin is still a bit sick, but Justin seems to be getting over it ok. He says he likes his new job and I can see a big change in him, he is a lot less stressed! he is working all week this week (Monday to Saturday) but that means he can have 2 days off next week for moving.














Jazmin's follow-up eye appointment is on Tuesday, (It looks to be much better to me) and after that we'll move most of out stuff down the coast. Gideon has said we can use the garage at his work to store our stuff, which is great because his work is only about 20 minutes from our new place. The website for his company is great - as is the software it's http://www.nova-mind.com/ if you want to have a look. We're using a mind map as our basic movic plan and have found it to be very helpful, but of course it has much more widespread uses than that.





































Odie cat is going to his new temporary home on Monday night, we asked on Freecycle if anyone could "cat-sit" while we move, and one lady has agreed to do this for us, which is a big help. Moving house can be very stressful on cats, and we want to make it as calm as we can for him by having him out of the house before we start moving the big stuff.

We're going to leave Jazmin's bed there in the laundy and then put it back in her room for the last night because it will be hard to get her to sleep otherwise. I remember how stressed she was last time we moved, but she is bigger now and able to be entertained by a DVD!! We're keeping our little TV and DVD player out to take to my grandparent's place, so she can watch what she likes without driving them nuts with the same thing over and over and over again - an endless rotation of Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Shrek 1 & 2 (I am hanging for Shrek 3 on DVD), Mr.Men & Little Miss and My Little Pony... All attempts to get her to watch something else - Finding Nemo, Incredibles, Wiggles - you name it, I've tried it - have been met with a request for one of the above said DVDs!!

South-east Queenslanders have woken to a record-breaking cold morning.

The Bureau of Meteorology said temperatures fell to a record low at Brisbane Airport shortly after sunrise, with a temperature of -0.1 degrees celsius recorded at 6.39am (AEST).

The previous record for the airport was 0.6 degrees, recorded in 1971 and 1994.

Elsewhere in the region, Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane, recorded a low of -4.8 degrees overnight, just 0.1 degree short of the lowest temperature recorded there, in 1995.

There have also been reports of -7 degrees in Stanthorpe, in Queensland's south, while nearby Warwick recorded a temperature of -6.4 degrees.

Kingaroy, north-west of Brisbane, plunged to -3.2 degrees, while Amberley, in Brisbane's south-west, fell to -1.9 degrees.

Brisbane itself was slightly warmer at 3.9 degrees, while the Gold Coast got to a low of 3.1 degrees about 7am (AEST) and the Sunshine Coast recorded 1.4 degrees.

The cold weather is a result of a combination of dry air and clear night skies as well cold air being pushed up from the south by a strong low pressure system in the Tasman Sea, a bureau spokesman said.

Cold temperatures are expected to continue on Friday but should return to average by the weekend, the spokesman said.