A friend of mine is off to Perth shortly to spend Christmas with his brother. I can't imagine Christmas with temperatures around 38C
Aussie: Yep and when I was younger we went to the grandparents place and sat through the whole cooked lunch, right next to the wood fired stove that had cooked the meal and still had the pudding simmering away.
Ha ha this reminds me of a 1960s Persil washing powder advert. One schoolboy has a greyish white shirt while another happy smiling schoolboy has a very bright white shirt. The caption reads, 'Someone's mum doesn't know, Persil washes whiter'.