Thanks, mates.

We're going to a traditional Aussie barbecue for lunch - steaks on the barbie, beer in the esky, and lots of good friends.

It's stinking hot here too - 100 miles north of Alan of Oz. I'm sick of this humid heat, with no cool southerly breezes and no rain. We get weather like this often in this part of the east coast but rarely for such a long uninterrupted stretch of time. It has even been 40 degrees in cold rainy Melbourne, way down south.

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" When it snows on Christmas Day in Tasmania and they get heatwaves in Melbourne it must mean the end of the world is nigh. (BWG*)

Helen * = big wicked grin