Hot Weekend

With global warming and scarcity of land, city farming is getting popular throughout the world as a new way of looking at sustainability living. There was news on a Tokyo office building which has its entire façade dedicated to planting vegetable. This indeed could become a new aesthetic element that architects could utilize in their future building design.

Perth in its aspiration to be a global city also has its own city farm albeit on a much smaller scale. There is a problem of identity when Perth officials think of city farming. The City Farm in East Perth was listed in one of the venue for Perth Heritage Week this weekend and I just couldn’t understand why. The buildings’ walls were painted with beautiful graffiti that give the place its own unique charm.

We went to this place yesterday hoping to see some cuddling animals as advertised in the brochure so that my little playful daughter could have some fun. However, the only animal we say was a little pink plastic or metal piglet. They were having a farmers market and sold all sort of local produce mainly from the farm. There is a café in the centre of the farm selling cooked food, cakes, drinks and coffee. I imagined it could be a nice place to visit on a much cooler day because the heat yesterday was unbearable. With its tight space and low buildings, I felt that someone the heat is being trap on the ground level and couldn’t escape. This is more so inside the café with its low height of metal roofing without heat insulation.

Yesterday was simply too hot, it was 38 degrees and I think we suffered minor heat stroke from that. I slept soon after I got back because of the intense headache and dizziness. Slept too long in the afternoon that I stayed up late last night watching movies on TV: Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg and The Condemned starring Steve Austin. It was one of those unusual nights where we got to watch entire movies because our daughter was too tired that she went to bed early last night, yeah! Not a bad Saturday indeed except for the heat and headache.

Thankfully today’s weather has changed for the better with the maximum temperature forecasted to be just 29 degrees, that is 9 degrees difference from yesterday! I’m excited because we are going to visit the majestic Government House which we missed last year!