According to a BBC report this morning, Perth was the hottest city in the world yesterday.  At 44.2°C (111°F), apparently we sweltered through our hottest ever December day. 

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I made a post in landscape ( post link) showing some of the fire-scape pics from my post on Friday... but with some extra shots I took on Saturday (after the fire).

Photos taken this afternoon (Sat, March 10th)

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Well *phew* ~ yesterday was one helluva effort!  Big fire on the Kalamunda escapement (close to where we live), that was caused by an old codger burning his *rubbish*.  Poor fool lost control of it (never mind that it was a high-fire-danger day and absolutely against the law for anyone to partake in such a careless activity) and by 12.30pm ~ when ( Read more... )

Mid-semester break time doesn't exactly mean 'holiday' time for me, but it does give me an opportunity to troll the on-line papers! *whoo hoo*

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Before I could *enjoy* the company of our friends over some yummy food and a few drinks, I was rostered on a burn-off in Forestfield.  This area is right next to the Senior High School and - for obvious reasons? is considered an "arson" hazard.... so we did a hazard reduction....

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The weekend is expected to busy ~ with my mum visiting tomorrow afternoon (after returning from 6 weeks in South Africa - mmmmmmm.... pressies), Jo's step-sister's 40th B'day tomorrow night, and then I have a burn-off with the other "bushies" on Sunday.

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