I wish I could be happy about it. But to be honest, I just don't like summer. I love the idea of summer, but in reality it's too hot for the beach, indoors is full of mosquitos - as hard as we try to keep them out - our studio has been converted into a sauna and there are just too many people.

If it weren't so awful for the environment and my wallet, I would get air conditioning and put fake snow on my windows and not leave the house for the whole of summer, wrapped in a blanket and drinking hot chocolate like it's vodka*, laughing hysterically at all those foolish enough to brave the sweltering Queensland tourist circus.

* I mean water. Water's the one I drink a lot of.