I’ve taken my time responding to the Imaginary Garden’s challenge, but was prodded into it by reading – consecutively – Celie’s very very cold post from The Kitchen’s Garden and Granny 1947’s superheated complaint from South Africa. It seemed to fit the chained rhyme form (rhyming the last syllable of one line to the first syllable of the next)
One frozen friend in Illinois wishes it was hot.
Not so for a southern hemisphere blogger,
hogger of all the heat that’s going -
doing the things I so want to do -
who is at the end of her tether.
Weather too cold or too hot?
not happy with your climate?
hating too much rain, or too little?
simple answer: become a nomad.
Brilliant!! Why did I never think of this?
Truthfully though I could use some heat right now. BURR! 
’s to you!
haha..yes…like the birds.. i kinda enjoy that we have changing weather..if it would be sunny and warm all the time, it may would get boring after a while…smiles
Nicely done. Last summer in Spain was like hell’s inferno… but you soon forget when the weather goes cold. 12C here but the wind is howling a gale. Still January will soon be over:)
We should all embrace the inner nomad
Love this one Viv – it made me laugh – especially given that we a re facing 38c here tomorrow while the northern hemisphere has tantalising snowdrifts 
Doh – it’s obvious when you think about it
We had cold weather in South Africa as well. Sometimes. The real extremes are monster thunder storms and torrential rain (when it does rain).
I used to love watching those monster storms when we lived in the tropics, and rejoice in dancing under torrential rain to cool the skin – we used to say that someone up there had let the bath overflow!
Or a gypsie, it played to me like a hungarian type rhythm, or maybe desert too, but very good. A poem offering a solution and commentary at same time. Very clever. Awesome as always.
Love this! Perfect ending.
So true… some people are just never happy with the weather.
great solution… -10 here this morning
smiles….we have those…snow birds moving to florida for the summer…used to get crazy busy down there in the winter…and here i am hoping for more snow come friday….smiles…
this is so great! i chuckle, as i’ve been somewhat of a nomad until i found a perfect climate in ecuador! my sympathies go out worldwide to those who are enduring the droughts, floods, and cold. we’re entering the rainy season, so we’ll experience a bit of the extreme as well.
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This is my favorite part:
“Not so for a southern hemisphere blogger,
hogger of all the heat that’s going”
I had thought I could tolerated Hawaii’s heat but I’m not so sure now.
We just returned from a New Zealand and Australia cruise.
Auckland, NZ, is fairly temperate. Never real hot, no snow.
But then I will be playing golf her tomorrow in our nice SouthTexas climate.
My sister from Iowa visited and is home tonight where the temperature is
running in the lower Farenhiet digits.
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Sorry about the link. This is better.
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I’m glad the cruise was a success.
Love it!!
This is witty – on the west coast we always say “dont like the weather? wait ten minutes, it’ll change”.
That’s funny, we say the same thing here! Yesterday it was sleeting when I needed to go out. Jock said “wait 10 minutes” and it worked and I was able to keep dry.
and in truth, everything is changing, in constant flux no matter where we sit or stand… not travel required.
Become a nomad… now that is an idea!
I love this kind of poem, especially the heat hogger, and a nomads life would suit me just fine today with this howling bitter wind outside, unless of course i had to walk.. than maybe not!
It would be nice
You have it right Viv….think I will pop over to your place!
A nomad in UK at the moment would have a hard time wandering! LOL ♥
I’m thinking something a bit more radical than that, eg an Internet search for somewhere temperate without too much rain, and going there! When the seasons change, repeat the process.