While I was forgetting to write things over the recent past, I had a visit from Tony Johnston, his wife and a couple of young Swiss travellers one of whom Simone was doing a school project on the bushfires. Tony works for ABC Northern Rivers at Lismore in NSW and they had been travelling around the fire affected area and dropped into say hello.
Tony subsequently phoned to ask if I would do a radio interview on his morning program. I agreed and the result is contained in Tony's blog in which he writes movingly about their experience in Victoria . It can which can be found at
http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2009/07/the-victorian-bushfires-new-hope.html#more
I've discovered that I say um a lot more than I was aware of but once again it was a special feeling, being able to say thank you to so many people I will never know who have and are contributing to our recovery.
Power and Glory!
What does this man
and this box
have to do with this 
??Well - he's Brendan Freeman the local electrician who didn't have a spare moment but found time to install our meter box, sort out SP-Ausnet and make our camp at 2335 feel like the pot of gold!
You have no idea how wonderful it is to be able to sit up in bed and watch TV that isn't going to stop in the middle of the last episode of Foyle's War because the genny's run out of fuel or to have to get up in the nearly sub-zero temperature, struggle to put your boots on and then wander down through the mud and damp weeds, to avoid falling base over apex on the clay and finally switch off the generator before doing it all in reverse to get back freezing to bed.
Thanks Brendan
Just when you thought it was ...
I'm really a bit shattered at the moment - spent several hours this afternoon re-formatting and updating a spreadsheet for work and then somehow managed to delete the bloody thing. It's the second time I've done it recently and its hard enough trying to focus on the detail without stuffing the bloody thing up.
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