Thanks Jennie. He has been surprisingly calm about it but his Mum has been not of this world for many years. She loved butterflies, so I think of her sitting in Heaven's garden, watching the butterflies with her loving husband who passed away about 30 years ago. I never met him.

For my Mum's funeral 26 years ago we sang this hymn:

I Come to the Garden Alone

so that song has been playing in my head this week for Hubby's Mum.

I looked at the Bureau of Meteorology's
MetEye temperature forecast map and Central Oz is going to be like a furnace and you will get the eastern edge of it for a few days. Scary! Especially as you are on the cooler highlands so it will be more of a shock than for us down here.