How we spend summer in Australia, and characteristically February is the worst month for all of this.

Next weekend we are in for temperatures around 40+ celsius ...104+ fahrenheit.

(Today. Mon Jan 20. 36 Celsius. Melbourne shrouded in smoke from bushfires 100s of kilometres away.)



Canberra 19/01/2003. 350+ houses burnt. 4 dead.

http://www.theage.com.au/issues/bushfires/index.html

Canberra fires.

"When I read such reports I am more and more convinced that we have to bomb Iraq." - John Howard.