OHHH Thank you so much everyone. It's so much fun getting greetings from all over.
Dave - we haven't heard from Andrew. Hildebrand tends to enjoy pottering around at home. All those years on the road, all that restlessness. We never know when someone might remember him and book him for a festival - but he's never been much interested in promoting himself.
Fires were close but down wind. Terrible for the wildlife (again). Yellow-bellied gliders, red-tailed black cockies, smokey mice and the not-so-rare - like koalas.

freda I hope we will get to see each other. We have vague plans for a train trip up North -- so it might be hello Sandra and Jenny and Jenny and you.

What a nice warm glow I'm feeling - and it's not the weather for a change. There's rain filling our tanks.
Cheers, Joy