Black Saturday

It's a very sad and tragic day in Victoria with horrific loss of life in bush fires across the state. Its 10pm on Sunday night and every time you click on heraldsun.com.au the death toll goes up. Its now up to 84 deaths and up to 650 homes destroyed.

The fire was close enough for us to smell the smoke but well and truly far enough away for us to be safe. There were some fires in Narre Warren East. It was a stinking hot day 46.7.

It is pretty hard to imagine the extent of it but the bottom photo shows Marysville, every house and shop in the whole suburb is destroyed with a large number of residents dead. Dette is always saying she wouldn't go up to the hills because of fires, I always poohpoohed her but i am on board now. The wind was so strong the fire was on these poor people before they had a chance to leave.

If I was at work I would have gone up there and helped and i feel a bit like i should so we are going to give the baby's clothes that we don't need (boy or girl not yet known) to the families that have lost everything and the kids are going to choose some toys and teddies to donate.

On a significantly happier note, Carmel moved into her new home on Friday and has settled in, Dette is slightly more over being pregnant and we are keen to take the short drive to South Eastern Hospital.