For those Baking and Scorching in Australia

Please spare a thought, send a thought and/or a prayer or what ever you are comfortable with to those in Australia. Especially all in the States of Victoria and South Australia. The temperatures there are up over 40 degreesC.

To make things worse there have been powercuts in Melbourne, and no doubt in other centres and towns. Not only electrically powered cooling devices not working, but people stuck in lifts (US Trans: elevators).

The bush fires are "away" and now joining up.

We may be great rivals at sport, but when "push comes to shove" the NZ and Aussie cousinship comes in to play. I don't doubt that we will be sending some of our specialist Rural firefighters over to help out, just as NZ and Aussie combined to send a team of firefighters over to help in California recently.

Only there is little we can do here to help relieve the incredible heat. And I was complaining to myself about Wellington's predicted high of 26 degreesC for Saturday, and temp not dropping below 18 overnight tonight.

Parts of Australia (and it is a HUGE country) have been hit with many years of drought, then severe flooding. While we get the same here and it is also disasterous for those affected, it is on a smaller scale.

So send a thought to EnZed's cousin, Australia. Yes, even with a cricket series involving the 2 nations starting on Sunday.