And the cats will be ready in their baskets too, Bruce.......don't worry, we had all that organised yesterday afternoon. We have a small caravan so, if it looked at all as though we would have to leave, the car would be hitched to the van and all would be ready to go well in advance. We would then have somewhere to live for a few days.

Fortunately the fire just north of us was contained by fire fighters and the weather, the wind changed direction and we had a few - and I mean just a few! - drops of rain. It was one of several fires within an hour or so radius of us started by lightning strikes on Saturday night.

A new record was set on Saturday for the highest temperature ever recorded here, not a record we need to break.

Cheers
JennieG