This year has been marred with bushfires and today is no different. Fires in the Grampians in Victoria have been raging for days with 27 homes lost. You have to admire the fire fighters, they just keep going and going. Crews that were here fighting our fires on New Years Day are now helping out in Victoria. This blaze has over-shadowed ours by far, and that was bad enough. My heart goes out to all the people there.
We had a lovely day. I met Mum and Aileen at the pool and spent a few hours there. My shoulders and back are quite burnt and I was sitting in the shade! The water was lovely and coming home to the new air-conditioner was lovely too. It's such a pleasure to sit in the lounge-room now; not like last week when I had a wet towel draped around my neck and temperatures were 42C. The electricity bill will be of interest when it comes, I hope I'm in for a pleasant surprise, not total heart failure.
Carly and Alex spent most of today at the pool and tonight both are very red and shiny. Lots of moisturiser!! Everything at the pool was free today, and there was a giant blow-up sea monster looking thing that the kids were lining up to go on. There was a guy with a hose keeping it all wet and making it difficult for the kids to stay on, I saw Alex slide off it a few times. They had heaps of fun. Amy went home with Aileen so tonight it's just me and the kids. Alex in his room and Carly in hers and it's nice and quiet. Shame I have to go to work tomorrow. Lots of others at work are taking RDOs. I'm taking two days without pay to take 2 weeks holidays and I have lots of last-minute work to do.
My head is focusing too on what we'll need to pack and I'm already panicking that there won't be enough room in the boot.
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