Christmas / NY

[capcom]

Glad that you made it! Not the best of times to be in that part of the world. Hope you remain safe and sound.

Thanks crash   Right at this moment, it's a pea soup London fog outside.  Just makes driving conditions even more hazardous.  22 hours without sleep, drenching the house with buckets and hoses ...

[Baggers]

Thanks crash   Right at this moment, it's a pea soup London fog outside.  Just makes driving conditions even more hazardous.  22 hours without sleep, drenching the house with buckets and hoses ...

Bloody hell, CC, please take care of yourself mate. Our thoughts are with you.

What really worries me is that we're only early in summer and these fires in NSW, SA, QLD and VIC have been on and off for more than a month already.

[capcom]

Can't even breathe outside Baggers !!  You need a gas mask.  Literally ....

[cookie2]

Take care of yourself CC in this very dangerous time. Someone very close to me got back from Orbost last Sat after visiting her sister for Christmas. They then both travelled back to Melbourne together. Talk about getting out by the skin of their teeth! At that time it was black soot raining down from fires quite a long distance from the town. How quickly things can change.

[capcom]

The CFA is just down my street Cookie.  They watched out for all of us and they're gonna get some slabs from me tmrw.  Staggering devotion to their jobs and the community.  The roar of the flame storm and fire on three sides you could easily see made you feel very small VERY quickly.

My lawn's covered in black eucalyptus leaves still perfectly formed.  The wave of heat from where they came must have been that intense and the winds did the rest. 

Thanks again to all of you   Mike

[Baggers]

The CFA is just down my street Cookie.  They watched out for all of us and they're gonna get some slabs from me tmrw.  Staggering devotion to their jobs and the community.  The roar of the flame storm and fire on three sides you could easily see made you feel very small VERY quickly.

My lawn's covered in black eucalyptus leaves still perfectly formed.  The wave of heat from where they came must have been that intense and the winds did the rest. 

Thanks again to all of you   Mike

One of the truly beautiful parts of Aussie is Gippy, especially east and south (though south of Drouin and north to Neerim South/Jindivick is also damn pretty). We almost moved to Metung a few years back, only work issues prevented it.

We'll meet up at a game this year, Mike, and the pies, dimmies and beers are on me!

[capcom]

      Hope so Baggers

[LP]

It's funny how things can latch onto your mind, reminded by Billy's Jungle conversations.

Fires, wars, and all other sorts of other issues private and public, yet my thoughts continually drifted to Danny Frawley over the NYE period.

How sad, and in the shadow of the fires many more will find themselves in that same head-space, the irony of Christmas/New Year. Something we should all be cognisant of!

[Thryleon]

I had a rather underwhelming christmas period on a personal level.

My birthday is December 26.  My sister, and 2 of her kids came down with Gastro on christmas night, and then I didnt really get any chance to spend any of the holidays with them.

We went out to dinner with my mum as we were going to do "my family's" christmas after christmas day given we spent Christamas eve and day with my wife's family.

Unfortunately that didnt really pan out either as my brother also came down with Gastro.

It was rather dissapointing.

I look forward to a better christmas this year, although hopefully it wont be full of arguing, sadness and one sided ness like this years.