'Winter is coming". And Australia goes into blind panic. Never have I seen such a bunch of wusses as this nation when the colder weeks, sorry days, roll in. 
Like goldfish, we appear to collectively erase from our brains any memory of winter, so every   July, we freak out when the temperature sinks to single digits.
This week, a cold snap hit the country, and the mercury dipped to 6C in Sydney on Thursday. We talked about this in coffee shops and workplaces with more fear in our eyes than Jon Snow hearing The Night King is coming to tea.
It was a tad nippy, but it wasn't exactly Arctic, warranting the amount of North Face I saw on the streets.
Everyone's clad in hats, scarfs, gloves. Sensible if you are out and about pre-dawn, but annoying when you have to shed them layer by layer by lunchtime, for fear of expiring in a puddle of sweat.
Ironically, the temperature in Sydney yesterday was more or less on a par to that of London this week: in their summertime. They are currently wandering around in flip-flops and sunbathing in their pants in the parks.
Meanwhile, we're Ugg-booted up and huddled under blankets, shivering on our sofas in our heating-less houses, staring longingly at the electric heater and wondering if we can afford to run it for just one more hour without declaring bankruptcy. Answer: no.
When I first arrived in Australia from the UK over 20 years ago, I was confused as to why most Sydney homes were devoid of heating. It was as though the city pretended it didn't have winters.
In fact I've never felt as cold as I have here, when I accidentally bought a wooden house and realised why they're cheaper than brick when the wind whistled through the pile of sticks that counted as the walls and floor and froze me to the core.
It was colder inside than out - I'd leave bundled up like a snowman, only to discover it was a balmy 20C outside.
Meanwhile, imagine what our Canadian friends must think of the fuss we make. There, an average winter temperature is a high of -8C. What it takes to make headlines was last year's fierce winter when temperatures reached lows of -30C. But they were still unruffled: "It's not rare, it's not a conspiracy. It's being what nature tends to be," David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada told Global News at the time.
"The good news is that it's not persistent." Quite. So instead of panicking that we're going to freeze to death in winter weather Canada would call a heatwave, I say we need to show some grit and tough it out - until tomorrow when it'll all be over.Or, in the words of Ned Stark: "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Meaning, unfortunately he got his head chopped off, but we'll be fine.