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Staying away from the crowds and noise this X-Mas.

Booked this cottage for a couple of weeks. The Lake Cottage is the one I chose.

http://www.glenairecottages.com/360-virtual-tour

Hopefully we have some mild weather but the long range forecasts are predicting mid to high 30's over Christmas/New Years.

Best thing would be a huge summer thunderstorm coming in from the bay.

The Dogs should love it.

There will be plenty of Joe Blakes (snakes) in the T-Trees so I will have to be careful with them as a bite from a Brown or Tiger snake can kill a dog in minutes.

I remember my brother's cat dying in less than 5 minutes from a Brown Snake bite.

I shouldn't laugh but he was showing me the new kitten he got to replace his beloved cat. It was running around his back yard when a Wedge Tailed Eagle (my favorite animal in the world) swooped down, killed it and flew off with it.

Makes a change for a domestic cat to be a meal for a bird

Very pretty part of Victoria and am looking forward to just lazing around with a few favorite books on my Kindle.

Hope you are taking your computer too!
Don't forget the Genealogy!

Hi ya Mark , Hope you have a lovely time , poor little pussy cats just gone off Australia. We are all surrounded by floods at the moment, From Cornwall to Durham. Dt

Mark that sounds a nice place to be......worse than Bilston.....God!!......enjoy 1!

It does look lovely doesn't it Micheal.Enjoy Marky.

Rob........Take your tablet.
Mike.

How beautiful, wall to wall windows, gorgeous. Have a great time Mark.

I'm wondering how Mark's holiday is panning out? It seems to be a bit hot there and rather worrying with all these fires.

he between medium rare and well done if he in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe one of his snakes or spider have got him, makes you wonder why didnt he stop at home

Oh dear ,do you think he's well done now !

Narcolepsy played up heaps but I had a good time anyway.

Nobody was silly enough to go out in the 43 degree weather.

As you can see in these photographs...the smoke was terrible.





Spot the tourist!

Glad you are all ok,and not toast.

Where the corks in the hat then

What lovely blue sea, don't think I could stand that heat though, hope you are no where near the Bush Fires Mark

Linell.

Fires were a fair distance away but we were on "Catastrophic" level warnings and I had sat down and organised a fire evacuation plan with the family.

Aussie bush fires can travel at over 100KMH (and they are the only thing in nature that goes faster uphill than down).

If you spot a fire in the valley then it is already too late to evacuate.

So my rule was simple, if we heard a local CFA (Country Fire Authority) alarm then we immediately head for the football ground in the nearby town.

If we see the fire in the valley then we fire proof the cabin as much as possible and wait out the fire in the laundry which would theoretically have been the last room to catch alight.

Most people killed are those who flee too late.

It is statistically safer to be in the house than in the car if the fire is close.

Although the last outbreak that killed a couple of hundred people literally blew houses apart within seconds!

We expect a few more days of Catastrophic danger levels before the summer is over.