Beyond the black stump, eh Sandra?! What about anything north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which would include Jennie and me? (That's if Jennie still lives where I think she does - northwest of here. :-)

The forecast is that the temperature will get up to 33 deg C here today only but that is not anywhere near as bad as the 40 deg C couple of days we had a few weeks ago.

I hope everyone is well prepared for weather extremes, wherever you are.

Briefly, I have been going through a bit of a challenging time here. Hubby had a fall a couple of weeks ago and although he is walking around he has to take it all very carefully. Meanwhile I am doing all the running around for him. He didn't leave the house for almost ten days but he has been out a few times in the last week. I think the walking around is helping a bit but he isn't due for another X-ray for another month. Meanwhile his Mum has had worsening dementia for many years and looked like she would not be long for this world when we saw her last. She passed away this week but because of Hubby's minor back injury he can't endure a nearly four hour drive up the coast to go to her funeral. Luckily the funeral place will be streaming the service so we will be able to watch it from home. It would be hard to miss your own Mother's funeral but he seems to be holding up at present.