AIYA!

Dear catsintheattic, nenne and groolover,
The reason that your Christmas cards have not appeared is that I just found them stuffed into my gym bike pannier, rather than my work and useful things pannier, where they have been hanging out for the last seven or eight weeks.

I am an idiot.

I'll try to hold onto them for next Christmas, and in the meantime, expect something random in the post, eventually ;-)

XXX

Brammers

(This is dumber than the time I put my sunglasses in the fridge. They've been in there under my bike seat cover the whole time, which has been resting at the bottom since it's not rained at any time when I have been at the gym, until today, when I got to to the whole 'What?! Oh BUGGER!' dance slightly wet.)

State of the Nation

Tasmania: Fires mostly under control, no longer super stinky hot.

Western Australia and Northern Territory: Still stinky hot for the most part.

Victoria: On fire, less stinky.

South Australia: Mostly fine.

Queensland: Under water.

New South Wales: Really quite wet, but for the most part it's falling from the sky rather than sheeting across the ground, so nowhere near as dire as Queensland.

And this video will probably be shown in snippets on TV news near you around the world, but watch this mostly original version for the beauty of the dialogue as a car looms out from a sea of foam blown onto a stretch of roadway and narrowly avoids two police. I strongly suspect the bleeped out bit may have come from the larger copper.

ETA: Charlotte mentioned the Sydney weather radar in her comment. This is the 128km radar shot from this evening. My house is about a half-inch down from the middle and a little to the left.