In which our heroine buys a hot water bottle

Today's jobs were all related to settling in. So I needed to buy a bus pass in order to get to the university, find out where my closest food shops were and buy a hot water bottle.

The hot water bottle was somewhat of a priority now I have discovered how cold it gets at night. Minus 1 last night with a frost this morning. However, the skies have been a beautiful clear blue all day and the temperature rose to a much more pleasant 14 degrees by midday.

Canberra is built around a large manmade lake. I am staying to the north of the lake, and the city centre shops are also the north. I did plan to walk all the way to the lake this morning, but the distance was longer than it looked on the map so I only made it as far as City Hill, which had a lovely lookout to the mountains to the south of the city and a centenary marker for the centenary of the founding of Canberra in 1914.

You can see how blue the sky is!

Back home I am still awaiting the arrival of the missing suitcase, but rumour has it that it has at least landed in Canberra.

On the downside, no sight of kangeroos yet, but on the upside, no sight of snakes and spiders either.

Hot water bottle was purchased at The Big W, by the way, which appears to be Woolworths in Australian form.