We are heading for summer - how do I know? - we've had our first bushfires! The weather is getting warmer - I'm starting to avoid the sun, & have had the fan going again. The humidity hasn't arrived yet (thank you weather gods). My beautiful Hoya has started to flower. The shops are filling with Christmas stuff. Students are sitting their final exams (our school year ends in Dec).

Looks like it will be another nasty fire season around here as a large part of the state has been Drought-declared for months. Not only is the bush dry, but arsonists are out, too. Houses were burnt out on Sydney's southern outskirts last week, in a fire probably caused accidently by workers repairing water pipes. However the fires to the north that killed one man & destroyed more houses were probably deliberately lit.