So speaking of fires; there's a number of fires that sparked today in Victoria during the 44 (112f) degree day (following another on Wednesday - it's not usually this hot in December, it's more a Jan/Feb kinda thing); but on top of that pretty much all of Melbourne was blanketed in smoke from the NSW bush fires. That's, what, 800? 1000 miles away? It's been like that in Sydney for more than a month.

Weather and fires are pretty fuckin' crazy this year, and only scheduled to get worse. The season has only just started, we've got months of dry, hot weather to come. Anyway, Christmas next week, heading into the country where it's even drier and hotter (and there's currently fires around 15 miles from where I'll be going) so should be entertaining.

Have a good week all.