Thank you, Andere - I don’t feel a day over 21.
The bushfires over this season have been the worst in living memory and they are very far from over, we still have a long way to go. We have been very lucky in my part of Sydney since the Royal National Park, less than 5 minute drive from me, has so far escaped the fires. We did have one scare when someone deliberately lit a fire but there were other people close by who extinguished it and the arsonist was arrested. While the fires have ringed Sydney, the nearest has been around 55 klms away from here and since I live on a 7 lane (soon to be 8 lane) Highway, I think we are pretty safe where I am.
The fires started in Queensland, then reached NSW, South Australia are now affecting Victoria after devastating the south Coast of NSW with fires in all the other states, too. The smoke has been covering huge areas and even reaching as far as New Zealand. So far 11 people have been reported to have died or are missing with hundreds of buildings destroyed, even rainforests have been burning in the tropical parts of Australia !