It's that Time of the year.

Well its that time of the year again in Western Australia. the sun is coming out to play a little longer, the birds are chirping and busy stealing the string from your vegie garden stakes, and the grass and plants are all starting to seed and bloom. Yep Its spring in WA.

Spring, such a magical time of the year. Beautiful bright sunny days that we have been craving since we are a worship the sun gods kind of state. We flock to beaches and dip our toes for a taste test, craving to  get back in our beloved ocean. We start taking rover  for walks and nod to  fellow sun worshipers in the afternoons with a smile because our warmer weather is about to be on us again. And then there's that pesky thing, the one  so many of us have to deal with to some degree... its hayfever time!

Itchy eyes, itchy skin, water streaming from the eyes in a bid to expel that horrid pollen and seed dust. Snotty noses no amount of blowing will fix. Throat itchy, dry and tight, and if your really lucky skin flare ups with eczema and the biggy, dragging a number of inhaler pumps everywhere you go so you  can  talk with out wheezing and sounding like Darth Vadors long lost child.

You go down to the chemist and ask for the brand you know works and they tell you to try out this you beaut new pack of  anti Histamines  they swear are for those exact symptoms, 2 hours later you look like you just left aunt Bessies funeral and your nose resembles Rudolfs. So down you go the next day to  try the next pack, feeling like you've been slammed into the  bus that you saw driving down the street earlier. They smile sweetly and ask how can I help you todaycause of course you normally look like death warmed up. But you smile that forlorn smile and say "I  need anti hist-ermines" they reach for the pack you bought yesterday and you say, "Nope they are useless I want X brand". You know they work cause  it took you 5 packs last season to find out  that that was the pack for you.

So then you hand over Your licence  and they check you out to make sure your not a drug dealer in disguise, because of course drug dealers  come in all the time with eyes swollen shut, nose red raw anda rash  from the neck down from itching. But that's ok cause now we can go  and get our symptoms under control.

Spring, such a wonderful time of the year. Full of rebirth and renewal. We sit and wonder at the marvel of natures beauty. Go on picnics and  relax on the lawns only to come home sun burnt because we got out of the habit of packing sunburn cream and itchy because we forgot  grass seeds are what set us off and we didnt take the anti histamine before we left the house.

we race in the house and jump in the shower in a bid to stop ourselves from scratching and looking like we are imitating our chimpanzee cousins. pop a pill and hope that we can see again sometime soon without crying ourselves a river. We sigh in despair when we reach for the tissue box only to remember we used the last tissue this morning.

Yep Spring. Its a magical time, full of beauty, wonder and Snot!