If Christmas had been unseasonably cold, the last few days most certainly have not, with 40C days, wind and the smell of bushfire smoke in the air.
Every since the bad bushfires at the end of 2019 we've been a little twitchy about bad fire days and today certainly could be one.
Yesterday it was 40C by 1130 in the morning
Fortunately we had a couple of showers in the evening and today it's not quite managed 40C, although the wind is blowing strongly - still risky and a total fire ban day, but just that little bit better than yesterday.
However, the show must go on - both last Friday and today I went up to the Athenaeum for a couple of hours cataloguing.
No spectacular finds, just further confirmation that they were buying books second hand from a variety of sources to fill the Athenaeum's shelves.
At the same time I read Ursula Bloom's memoir of her life as a young woman during world war one.
It is very much a personal memoir, but it does contain a lot of useful background information on what the civilian population thought as the war progressed, not to mention the impact of the Zeppelin raids on people's morale.
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