And today we have smoke...

 

Not surprisingly, after the fires, we have smoke, serious smoke haze this morning, bad enough that for the first time since the Black Summer fires, we're running the air purifier we bought back then. 

For the last six years it has sat in the lounge room taking up space. We never felt the need to run it during Covid, and while we've almost turned it on a couple of times when the Fire Management people have being doing back burning to reduce the fuel load in the Gorge and the old gold diggings, it's never been quite that bad.

Today's different.

All plans for bike rides, a swim in the lake and what have you are off. Currently showers are forecast for mid week - hopefully they will damp down the fire areas and clear the air a bit ...