Another unbearably hot night, with a 30 ish day to come. Few showers around but they are guaranteed to miss us completely.

Stinking hot night followed by a stinking hot day, glaring sun made animal rounds a real battle this morning and it's just getting hotter all day. Zero chance of rain

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Mid 30s expected today, clear skies so nothing to mitigate the sun's effect and zero chance of rain. I think we've been here before.

In news that will surprise nobody hovering around 30+ temps, blazing sun, zero chance of rain.

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Pretty typical job from the BOM yesterday, no wind, bit of mizzle but they got the cool change right. They really should stick to rolling out useless websites. Anyway cooler today, full sun, no rain. More raking up / removal of tree bark

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Such a pleasure to have a major news outlet doing these sorts of stories about the much ignored west of Victoria.

Today we're expecting mid 30s, before, it seems a change which could arrive with between 70 and 90 km winds, possibility of thunderstorms and lightning and up to 2 mls of "rain". TFB so off to roll out all the gear

Car fire just up the road on the corner near a friend's. So I'm running around with leads and a cat carrier wondering what the hell I'm going to do with two greyhounds & an extra cat, but luckily it was so close himself got to it with a fire extinguisher before it spread. 1/2

After a couple of stinking hot nights, mid 30s again today, glaring sun, zero chance of rain. Every morning, wake up, check the tank levels in the SmartWater app, then the Tempest weather station, then the Amber electricity usage app, then the cameras for where the Fox was hanging around overnight

30+ again, dry with clouds of dust in the air constantly, animal water tank is going to need a delivery again soon, zero chance of rain.

Heating up again a bit, around 30 still zero chance of rain and more fire prevention clearing to do while himself keeps going with the tractor engine rebuild which has been a saga and a half

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Curling doesn't necessarily have to be just a winter sport.

If the cap fits. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Am I the only person who is getting sick to the back teeth of being forced to witness the #lnp and their histrionic public suicide pact play out? Abbott says they can now win. What? Irrelevance of the decade award? FFS would somebody please make them all go away.

Much cooler today but blowing a gale and dusty as hell. Zero chance of rain.

Yesterday's predicted high was 29c so we got to 37 which held for quite a long time. Change eventually came through with a couple of mls of drizzle. Lots and lots of clearing up to be done again, trees are shedding massive amounts of bark and leaves. Marked how much more than previous years

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Severe fire weather day, but not here. Can see the point where it starts with the naked eye but nope. It's not dangerous on the coast 2.5 hours flat out drive away, so not dangerous here. At some stage some moron in "charge" is going to notice the Great Dividing Range and get a hell of a surprise.

He’s not wrong.

Watched an episode of this last night: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and we both looked at each other with surprise. We could understand some of the German (we're both learning it). Got such a buzz / surprise! Now we might have to go back and concentrate on the content of the show though ...

Low 30s again today with zero chance of rain or cloud cover. Slightly cooler night last night for a bit of relief. Unsurprisingly. Yet. More. Raking. And in a break from the monotony, a bit of goat cuddling ie toenail trimming

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Here's a threat of Kudelka Gold

Remembering Job Kudelka, his greatest one line single panel

Oh no. I was wondering why his Bsky account had gone quiet and feared the worst. A very good guy and talented artist and cartoonist😢

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Another mid 30s day zero "rain" yesterday, zero rain today, small wind/dust storm through last night that has trees dropping huge amounts of bark everywhere again so yet more clearing of fuel yet

Close enough to 40c yesterday with a frankly hellish overnight "minimum", slightly "cooler" expected today and the forecast says "rain" but < 1ml so I'll put that down to their normal gaslighting bullshit. That's a small chance of a possible shower at most maybe.

Another high 30s, cloudless, rainless day where the sun is just burning everything into the ground.

Would be in Bendigo but for the weather buggeritall.

Today it's 30+ again and dry with zero chance of rain. Yesterday we cleared out another couple of fruit bins full of dead garden and tree trash with still more to be raked up today.

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The Newcastle Writers Festival organisers can see the rake. They understand how a rake on the ground works. They know what happens when you tread on the rake. They’ve seen the swish-thwack of a trodden rake on other festivals. Can they resist rake-stepping?

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This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

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Needless to say still in the 30s, still no rain. Lots and lots of dust around leading to quite a lot of false alarm callouts. Everyone's just so twitchy and hyper alert.

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Still hot, still zero chance of rain. The speed at which fires are going from smoke sighted to emergency, get out is horrific. As is the exhaustion in the fireys and their communities. The targeted neglect is really obvious now.

The irregular AustCrimeFiction newsletter is out and about - two parts, the first has a link to the second. tinyl.co/4I3I Contains a summary of reviews and a list of recent additions to MtTBR #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

Back into the 30s today with zero prospect of rain, wind has backed off a bit so hopefully will get more tree trash and the grevilleas that have died as well, cleared away to the huge pile in the paddock away from the house, before it heats up even more later in the week.