weather

Created
Wed, 21/06/2023 - 18:31
Today is set to be agreeably alliterative across an assortment of areas although the occasional metaphor may cause some faces to cloud.  Idioms will be coming down like stair rods in northern regions, while the south may experience the odd outbreak of similes, like an unexpected shower of arrows.  In coastal, littoral, and seaside areas,…
Created
Wed, 28/01/2015 - 18:21

It was the Saltwater Freshwater Festival yesterday. Suzy and I enjoyed it, we were volunteering to help out. Rodney and Agrippa took Zaida with them. I found myself hosting the tent for the tribal elders. A french woman kept coming into the tent and leaving her kids there for me …

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Sat, 16/11/2019 - 05:12
Like everything the view out our window is clogged with smoke.
Like everything, the view out of our window is clogged with smoke

Just when we think the bushfires must have burnt themselves out they just keep on going. Every morning we are waking up to thick smoke. This was the view out our window yesterday morning and it is the …

Created
Sun, 17/11/2019 - 19:12

I should not read the news.

We will probably never count the hundreds of millions of wild creatures who have been burnt or choked in the bushfires this summer. The survivors are now parched and starving amongst the ashes and the fires are still raging. Is the fate of the …

Created
Mon, 06/01/2020 - 06:39
Magnum PI can take the heat
Magnum PI can take the heat

I wish I was on a beach in the Bahamas. There might be a cool breeze; it might not be quite so insanely hot and the cocktails, unike the one I just invented, would not be so disgusting. I stuck some coconut milk in …

Created
Sun, 29/11/2020 - 13:00

By Crikey, it is a warm day here in Broken Hill today. We have the evaporative cooler ducting it’s breeze through the house but it’s still pretty warm. Outside the ground is too hot to walk on and the corrugated iron that encases everything in this town sizzles …

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Tue, 19/07/2022 - 17:52
And onto today’s climate forecast, where we can expect to see a prolonged spell of inaction, interspersed with patches of hazy promises across many areas.  Over Westminster and other centres of government, a build-up of hot air will cause inactivity to soar to record levels over the coming days, in spite of the high pressure. Elsewhere,…