... that describes today. Also hazy and grey. From my air-conditioned office it looked like a cold grey day, outside it was 38 degrees - that's horridly hot. The hazy is from all the bushfires in the mountains. We had to sleep with the doors & windows closed to keep the smell of burning gum tree out.
I was not looking forward to the walk home up the hill this evening, but the southerly change kicked in just as I left work so it was quite cool in the end.
Once home I noticed my face was covered in soot smoots and the front door step is covered in soot too.
Sigh, summer's here alright.
Wednesday, November 22
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Oooooh dear. Does the air smell smokey too, like BBQ'd gums? The bushfires worry me every summer. I once sat on a friend's roof in the mountains while he hosed it down .. waiting for the fire to come and engulf the joint. We could see it coming over the hill - it didn't arrive, thankfully, but it was rather nerve-wracking. Soot floated in the air for days. My car was like a soot carpet.
Yes the smell is pervasive - cooking gum trees is what it is.
I do recall one xmas when we left the house with the windows open for the breeze and returned to rooms covered in ash - it was a horror to clean up - not as bad as for others though!
oh crumbs. my folks once left all the doors & windows in our house open while we went away for 2 wks over the chrissie hols years ago (they did it so someone could come & clean our house - but the cleaner never showed - which we didnt know) -- a dust storm swept thru & when we got back, every corner of the house was covered in thick red dust. oopsoh!
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