As we wind on towards winter, Danksta is puzzled by the ongoing debate about gathering at a beach where you can get your gear off and promenade the privates in public.

Well, if the A-Bay au naturel alumni want to form a local branch of the Bondi Icebergs, the Danksta hopes that they are insured against frostbite, hypothermia and a white sandy version of snow blindness!

Unless you're already too numb, you can't help but have noticed that the mercury is falling, the nights are getting crisper, the breeze has a definite Paddle Pop bite, the doonas are back on our beds and the heating bills are rising.

Mister Scales, the 1.5-metre lace monitor who commandeers our veranda for his annual high season from October to May, hasn't been sighted for the past three weeks.

The neighbour's chocolate Burmese cat, who seems to have forgotten it way home, is ever more reluctant to go out for the night, so before long Danksta is going to have the scars to show for the cat's resistance.

Yet it is a curious paradox that we are enjoying more of the eponymous Coast weather now than we didn't get to savour last summer!

Faced with a few more months of chilliness ahead, the Danksta wishes to announce the creation of a new pressure group which aims to have the hitherto hidden world of hibernation officially approved and recognised.

Once the warmer weather returns, we can then trade our hibernation in for that other time-honoured tradition of the tropics - none other than the equally life-enhancing siesta!

After all, we have more than enough 24/7-type technology available to carry out most of the necessary tasks while we can all take up our allocated annual absence in the arms of Morpheus.

Since we have sat-nav to find us, GPS to locate us, and SMS and social networks representing us online, surely we can afford to lose ourselves and go offline during the out-of-season duration!

Danksta will agitate for the right of anybody who wants to be let off to recline like Rip Van Winkle, or slumber like Sleeping Beauty! Furthermore, Danksta will also plead the case for the alternative arrangement of winter siestas and summer hibernations, if that is the more convenient option for our ever queuing up calendars.

Anyway, life doesn't have to be busy all the time, does it? Danksta get the feeling that there are too many people who don't know when to shut down for a spell, let alone shut up - to which Danksta also pleads guilty - sometimes it just can't be helped.

No chance for hibernation means that most of us feel overloaded at the start of yet another day, and overwhelmed well before that day is even finished!

Danksta gets wary of people who insist that we must be productive, purposeful, motivated, goal-oriented, target-aiming-at, serious, organised and accountable for each and every moment for the whole of life long.

When Danksta observes those people dressed in full business attire striding with missionary zeal from appointment to meeting to networking to workshop to seminar et cetera, he can only wonder whether they are really aware at all that they are on the Sunshine Coast.

It seems that some people are afraid to appear to be casual and relaxed because they would probably need to get some form of accredited training before they would even consider undoing the tie or switching the laptop off!

Yet those who regard life as a business venture instead of a pleasure beyond measure insist that the rest of us should get a life, and that to do so we have to keep every aspect of it on time, under control, in synch, and within budget!

So let's hear it for the proposed hibernation break and let's feel free to settle in snugly for however long we need!

After all we have been very busy indeed, when you look back on it! We've just elected a new super council, not long after we've elected a new federal government, we've traded in our state premier, and there's more and more of us moving here every week, and there's always lots and lots of events, issues and processes that will keep happening whether or not we get to participate.

For his own part, the Danksta has to have his nightly-and-daily dream life (which is often very vivid indeed) left to linger undisturbed before he can attend to the more mundane matter of waking up and getting up and all the rest that follows!

Danksta is reasonably certain that introducing a public program of hibernation and siestas could also foster affordable housing in the form of comfortable clusters of cave-like quarters of modest proportion. Hibernation housing and casa da siesta could become a lucrative new niche market of tourism property - no, no, no, that's starting to sound like a business plan already!

Let's keep hibernation for the leisure that we can all learn from while turning up the electric blanket (energy efficient model hopefully)!

Now, if you don't mind, Danksta has a forthcoming reunion planned with his own bed! First, throw away those sleeping pills!