Winter's here

I have a new hobby – checking the Meteorological Department's website every hour to find out the outside temperature. "It's 17 degrees and the humidity is 45 per cent," I told Tubby Hubby (TH) at 7pm today. One hour later, I duly reported: "It's 16 degrees and the humidity is down to 40 per cent."

Poor TH can do without the frequent updates because he's busy dashing off a 1,000-word article on really boring stuff like wealth management. But he humours me anyway.

He's British so he knows all about changing seasons whereas I have never had to bother with the weather forecast, having lived in an equatorial climate all my life. After all, in Singapore and Malaysia, it's always "sunny", "cloudy", "scattered showers" or "thunderstorms". And the temperature is always 27-32 deg C.

We broke out the heater yesterday when it was 16 degrees and it was such a novelty for both me and my Singapore-born cat that we both just sat close to it the whole night.

But more importantly, winter means a whole new wardrobe. Stuff that I've always wanted to wear but never could for fear of dissolving into a puddle of sweat – long wool coats, leggings, knee-length boots, knitted hats and the like. It's so fun.

Now, if only it would snow in Hong Kong...