Summer has come early for us with three days of fires and waterbombing choppers, today the worst day, and everything just reaks of smoke! It almost looks like it is down the end of the street but it is about another block or so away from us. The car and van are covered in ash and because (silly me) left out some washing this morning and a left a couple of windows open (let's face it, it's dam hot around here) we now have a house that smells like the bbq got it all wrong!

At least by it being burnt now, it will be (hopefully) free for the summer, but there is still a lot of bush areas on the island that are tinder dry - me thinks we are in for a long hot summer.