October

A view of Sydney from Manly

** updates are in blue text - Last updated 15 December, 2007 **

Monday 1st October

Start of bushfire season today ! and to mark the occasion its been a whopping 35 degrees worth of dry heat which has been like walking into a hair dryer all day! There's been a few bushfires today already, but mostly started deliberately (by 11 year olds as it turned out later!).

Although Holly liked the excitement of helicopters hovering over head and nearly landing at the end of the street (even although there was no fires anywhere near here - I wonder if they were looking for someone "arsonisting" about :-)

Tuesday 2nd

Came home tonight to be greeted by our friendly neighbourhood possum on our roof. Did I tell you about the possum? Well he / she has decided to sneak into the small roof section above the garage - our very own possum squatter! 

They are protected species, so you have to be careful when you want to try and get them out, and to top if off, your not allowed to release it more than 50 metres away from where you found it. Therefore you have to be really good at stopping it getting back into your roof again, as they probably just sit and watch you until you go away, and sneak back in again! 

They're cute little things, and don't do any harm, but best to get it out soon anyway. The best way is apparently to build it wee house so that it goes in there instead of your roof - a bit like a big nesting box about 4 times the size you would make for a robin or small bird.