Posted by: @lamp-lighter

I guess in Australia, you go southward for cooler weather? Funny, how odd that sounds to me.

Yep. And if you think that's odd, spare a thought for how strangely disorientated I felt when I first moved to the northern hemisphere — I was living near London, and I kept finding when I came up from the Underground, I'd head along roads in the opposite direction to where I was intending to go and would find myself in the wrong place and have to double back, even though I had a map and I normally have a good sense of direction. Finally I realised what it was. I was instinctively navigating by the position of the sun — I'd never previously realised how much I do that — and now the sun was in the southern half of the sky, instead of in the northern half where it had been all my life before!!!

Oh yes, and the other strange thing over this side of the world is that the moon is upside down and it waxes and wanes backwards, from right to left instead of left to right as it should. It still never quite looks right to me. I know the stars are different here too, but the night skies in Britain are usually so cloudy that I really can't tell.