Vast areas of New South Wales and Queensland have been burning for days in a very early start of the bushfire season. It has been called unprecedented. There have also been smaller fires in South Australia and Western Australia.

Oh Debbie and Linda, the Navy game will be at home, so it will be on NBC at 2:30.

I might miss the first part of the game, since we're singing for the funeral of a parishioner that morning, don't quite know how long it will go.

Good morning, Fritz.  It's cold here too, but sunny, so that's a good side to the weather today.

I had a very hard time getting much sleep after midnight, finally went back to sleep about 5 AM and then slept until after 9 AM, so my schedule is all off.  Would still like to check out those other locations, on the way to today's "real" doctor's appointment, but may have to skip Red Lobster.

Have a good day inside.  I won't be leaving for a little while in any case.

I'm sorry you had such a bad night, Debbie. Good luck for your day.

Hi, Ingy.  Sorry the sun was so brief.

Hi, Tony.

Hi Debbie

I got up about 5 a.m.  to answer a call of nature. I went back to bed but didn't get to sleep. I was disturbed by the cruelties and misery  depicted in the novel I was reading before I went to sleep last night. I fell asleep quickly after I put it aside and slept well till 5. I got up about 6 a.m. and made my coffee.

Thanks to my cold I’ve spent most of the last few days at home in the warm, reading. Quite nice really, with no family, cooking etc to worry about.

So, I liked The Fancy Dancer, but didn’t love it. Very easy to read, quite gritty in places, interesting take on the varying attitudes of the Catholic Church at that time towards homosexuality (so what’s changed?) and I did like the ending. It just didn’t move me very much, not sure why.

I got very worried about how Tom's life would be affected by Mrs S, but since the story doesn't end in tragedy ...