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Thanks for the good wishes, all. We are just about 'sorted'. Still expecting a not very nice day tomorrow, (forecast now for 43deg plus!) but hopefully nothing serious. Fires will occur, somewhere in the State, as they have done in the past week or so. One, started about 10 days ago, by lightening strikes, is still burning in a National Park area, so no homes in danger, but almost 5,000 hectares now burned. Just about to 'shut down' for the day, it's already 36Deg, so we're going to top up the doggie swimming pool in the shade house!

May not be around too much for a couple of days. The reason - totally in conflict with what you are all experiencing just now, and, probably, totally 'alien' to you all! This Thursday is currently forecast with extreme temps. (42degC plus), and strong winds, making it a potentially 'extreme' fire danger day, and warnings are being issued already. This is being predicted, at this stage, as perhaps as bad as Black Saturday in 2009, or Ash Wednesday in 1983. I was going to do a blog on this sort of stuff, but it's going to have to wait a little while. What it means for us? Well, I'm currently making sure all my digital photos are backed up both to disc, and to external hard drive. Tomorrow, we will be packing the camper trailer up with spare clothes, dried food, dog food, and all our most important docs. - birth certs., Insurance stuff, business stuff, passports etc, etc. Thursday I have to go to work, and will be away from home most of the day. My car will go with me, and in the back will be two containers full of all the old photo albums and slides, and any irreplaceable framed pictures of the family. Sounds a bit weird? Actually we are revising and refining our fire safety plan, which is necessary here. The likelyhood is that, should a disaster occur, we would only get about 30 mins to get out and get safe, and I may be at work, so Hubby, David, has to be ready to move himself, the dogs and the camper to safety. Hopefully nothing serious is going to happen, (been there, done that a few times), and this will be, as I said, 'revision and refine' for the coming Summer. Bit time consuming though, so don't think I'm ignoring, just busy for a short while.

Great choice, Richard, brilliant shot, Blackwolf - how lucky were you - well done!

makes things FLUFFIER

Welcome back James. Good to see you around again.

Comfort food

STEAK and.....

ELEGANT

Good thoughts, (and hugs), to you both, Richard, and your Mum. Will be thinking of you all. Hold fast to the good memories, not the stress of the last couple of weeks.

I got 33, but that's on my laptop. That's OK!

An enjoyable week checking out new posts, even though I couldn't do much myself. As usual several pictures came into the running for the final choice. Blackwolf's bird pictures continue to amaze, Phil's lovely Harvey was a huge 'aww!', Annie is doing some good stuff in her 365 project, Fuzzy's Me & Me Mate was nice, and his series of Goth pictures was fantastic! I nearly went with the Uncle Fester one - brilliant! - but took into consideration the significance of today's date. We have had some nice poppy pictures, and Heather's post today was lovely, but in the end I went with one of Lee's series of his nice Rochester set. It has a sort of nostalgic look, which fits the current 'mood', great textures and makes you want to investigate further with that 'come on up the stairs' look: Well done Lee! The original post can be seen here:

CAMERA

Sounds interesting. Just checking in on the tablet here, so I'll have a look at that later.

and.....CART

Love him!

and..NUTS

DREAMING

STEAK..and kidney

Lovely, thanks Blackrox! Don't know I'll get to see any here, our fire restrictions are in, so we'd probably have to go to Melbourne to see some at an approved venue.

FILLING.......at the dentist. EEK!!!!!

Fantastic choice, congrats Annie! :D

UNDER.......ground

Hope all goes well, Salvatore. Enjoy as much of the day as you can!

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