This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor to Jeremy Zackinson, New South Wales.

Jeremy has wintered the southern hemisphere, unusually cold, unusually snowy, Arctic air, lots of weather terminology to describe something that's

unusual. But now it is weeks till springtime for Jeremy. Can he see it?

Jeremy, a good day to you.

Weather is not climate, I understand that.

Spring, however, is weather and climate. Is your spring in order? Can you see it as anything

blooming? Good day to you, Jeremy.

Gidde, John, yes, it feels like spring is actually around the corner and this is remarkably different to

last week when we spoke and it was minus 2 degrees Celsius around about 28 Fahrenheit

no spring inside it felt like we were never going to get out this winter diet, but I can tell you now that it actually

feels like spring is around the corner. It's a mild 65-70 Fahrenheit right now as you speak,

and I can tell you too, there are the first signs of life we're starting to

see on our little trees that the first bulbs are starting to push through which

tells us that the trees at least think there's going to be warmer weather and

things like the Agapanthes and the

Patostrums are now starting to turn away from their brown hue and actually look like there are signs of

life which John I mean I trust mother Nature better than I trust our meteorologists.

Looking at the plants, they seem to think Springs coming so I'm keeping all fingers

cross right now that this warm weather may actually start to stay and will actually see all this growth come back pretty quickly.

Melbourne is South Australia I believe and it's reporting a warm, very warm winter day.

So what you're looking at is that Antarctic care that we worried

about last week is not sitting on you right now. Is it hot in Queensland? Are they already tropical? But it is warmer

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