A reminder: heatwaves like we're experiencing in Australia this summer are life-threatening! Yes, that is true. Bear that in mind as you go about your day. Keep cool. Drink water. Don't exercise in the heat. 🥵

Guy at the Australia Day concert is singing Six Months in a Leaky Boat and the mic died just as he was about to sing "Aotearoa" 😂

Baby galahs are really irritating 😂 🪶 (sound up for the full experience)

thespinoff.co.nz/society/26-0... This article refers to shorts as skivvies several times. I've never seen that usage in NZ; a skivvy is a long-sleeved turtle-neck top.

Severe heatwave again today in Canberra - 39°C - and many other places in south-east Australia. Keep cool. Drink water. Heatstroke is dangerous. Equally important, be bushfire alert and ready.

Well. That was a bit disappointing tbh, after the one I saw two years ago. Thumpy music with no narration, and cartoonish tableaux. The eagle & text at the start were the best bits. #CanberraDroneShow #Flight

Canberra is ready for a drone show

Add some what now? (Didn't notice until we got home but I hope someone tells them before the next print run!)

Saw this on Tony Armstrong’s Always Was Tonight 😢

I have been calling a local fishmonger for the last three days to ask whether they have any tarakihi in - they sometimes do - but they *never* answer the phone! Endless hold music, and if you select the "put me through to head office" option it's hold music there too 😥

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I am NOT looking forward to this weather 😭🥵

Wow. This thread 👇

Attn @samijaakkola.bsky.social ! All Whites to host Finland and Chile in first NZ-hosted FIFA Series www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

Nix score! @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social #COYN

Who'd be a mascot? 😂 #coyn @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

#COYN Time to get another 3 points! @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

How good was THAT? #COYN #CBRvWEL @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

Shirts off! #COYN @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social #CBRvWEL

That's our first ripe cherry tomato 😭 #currawong 🪶

I just got a "birthday offer" of a free 1-week gym membership and PT session. I'm feeling... targeted 😂 #NotAGymPerson

The temperature has dropped more than 10° in the last hour. Bliss.

Oh I love a thunderstorm at the end of a long hot day! Caveats: as long as I am safe & dry and the storm doesn't start any fires or otherwise harm people

I had forgotten that we'd had a brief power outage sometime in the break, and it had reset the alarm time on my clock-radio to midnight 😭😭😭

Turned my alarm back on 😔

FYI anyone driving the #Hume towards Melbourne, or Melbourne to #Canberra and beyond . #Fire posted 3.10 pm today

Our heatwave is over and it is so good to feel human again!

@eatsleepfutball.bsky.social I think I just saw you on tv 😀

This weather is really hard. Looking forward to the cool change which will drop tomorrow's high to 28°.

This morning's quake near Waverley has just been reported on the ABC radio news. I knew about it from social media - my GeoNet app didn't even send me an alert.

🚨Victorians' & some in NSWs' Tomorrow's weather's is high 30ºC to mid 40's *Again* with winds gusting up to 90km/hr in some areas😬Worst bushfire risk forecasts since catastrophic 2019/20 Summer. Be prepared to relocate/evacuate &/or offer those you know in high risk/rural areas a safe refuge💜

This isn't great

Second iceblock of the day into the birdbath...

...They measured 69C on the ground at a tram stop metres away from the building and 64C on a bus stop bench outside."

TV weather just showed a forecast of 46° for Mildura. FORTY SIX.

I wonder how hot the water in the birdbath is and whether I should put ice cubes in it for the parrots... 🪶

37.1° at 4.45pm. You will need more icecream 🍦 😋 #Canberra

Ice cream for dinner. Even if I did have some at lunchtime.

I've been riding past this delightful bus stop every day this week. I love that everything has a face but I REALLY love the awkward kangaroos. Perfection.

There's nothing in the bird feeder, it has been empty for months and they know it 🪶

It's blessedly cool this morning so I have jumped up & opened all the doors & windows and will enjoy it while I can. I expect by mid-morning we'll have everything closed, blinds down on the sunny side of the house, and cricket on the tv.

Don't underestimate this warning. Keep cool. Drink plenty of water. Stay out of the sun. 🔥🥵☀️ "The BOM Is warning of a multi-day heatwave covering more than half of the country. Temperatures are forecast to exceed 45C in some areas, sparking extreme fire danger." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

We have some non-urgent plumbing & electrical work that needs doing. Today was our preferred company's first day back so I called to ask when it might suit them to fit us in. Tomorrow between 9 & 11am 😍 *and* I was greeted like a long lost friend as soon as the office manager saw my phone number.

Attn all my moomin-loving friends! 😍

Echidna encountered

You may be having a day (week? month? year? life) where it feels like a major victory that you showered and put on clean clothes. Or maybe you're pumped because you ate food today. Take joy wherever you find it. Don't let anyone tell you that your small victories aren't victories at all. 🫂

Probably more of an Australian problem, but we need a word for when you realise you accidentally left the car sunroof slightly open overnight and now your car is probably full of spiders.

It's raining, but the ground is so hot that the raindrops evaporate as soon as they land on the path. It's almost uncanny - I can see drops falling, and hear them hit the tin roof, but the ground looks dry (I assume drops that land on grass & soil are soaking in a bit at least)

My Moominmamma socks have come to the end of their life and I will miss them 😔

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!