The fires haven’t affected me directly, although friends had been reporting smoke, etc.
The situation was bad, but we’ve had some much needed heavy rains (which then caused flooding).
My Uncle is about 10kms from where some of the bigger fires were happening, but he lives by the beach and has camping gear and a decent car so he’d be alright regardless.

Thank you once again for the supportive comments. The fishslap I got was earlier last year because I wasn’t thinking properly.

I’ll see what I can come up with for next week’s entry.