Weekends

The Melbourne winter comes with a vengeance and the only solution is to retreat inside for a weekend with a handful of friends, while rain pounds the window, as guisados and stifados and stews simmer on every burner of the stovetop, and slide in DVD after DVD, open beer after beer, bottle of wine after bottle of wine, fall asleep on the couch and wake up, bleary eyed and do it all again.