Parade might be unusual – many have said so – but he would rather endure all the miserable weather in a long, uninterrupted block as long as he knew that once it was over, it was over.

There’s something teasing and unpleasant about being given a glimpse of spring partway through winter and then having it taken away almost immediately and being plunged back into the horrible stuff.

That’s how Parade is seeing the maximums in the late teens that are forecast for this week – a little reminder of what awaits that will make the single degree maximums that follow even harder to take.

Then again, perhaps Parade is overthinking it.

Maybe the best reaction to this week’s forecast better weather is to be grateful for it, enjoy it and accept it as a little gift during the coldest time of the year.

THIS has probably already been seen by everyone in Bathurst with an internet connection, but Parade still got a laugh from it.

A friend showed Parade a doctored picture the other night that makes reference to the great current game craze.

The picture shows one of those “Police are now targeting” signs you see on the highway and underneath, some clever person has added the words “Pokemon players”.

If the reports of dazed players wandering onto the road while they stare at the monsters on their phone are correct, it might not be long before the police do have to target the Pokemon-obsessed – if only to save them from themselves.

THOSE shaking their heads at the Pokemon obsession should cast their mind back to whatever the craze was when they were at school.

For Parade, it was comic book character trading cards, but for others it would have been hula-hoops, yo-yos, footy player trading cards or Rubik’s cubes.

As they say, the more things change ...