My apron shop

Here is an ad for my BBQ Apron Shop. There are some funny aprons in there. Basically I've collected a whole lot of aprons from many Cafepress designers and sorted them into categories to make a one-stop shop for people looking for aprons as presents. Check it out!

Hot Hot Hot

NYE and nowhere to go. Too hot to do anything and the beaches are either too full or overpoliced due to the recent riots. Crazy Cat has taken to sleeping outside all day in the 40C (that's 100F for you non-metric people) heat. Bloody stupid thing. Keep having to go out and wet her to keep her cool.

Road tolls

So this is Christmas and the road toll is on the news every night. It's like a perverse sort of bingo. See which state will have the highest toll this year. I wonder if other countries have this? I doubt it, surely the road toll is too high given the larger populations.

It's beginning to feel a lot like a hot Xmas

You know Christmas is fast approaching when:

- the outside temp is 40C but the temp in your car (which has been parked at the station all day in the baking sun) is at least 50C. It feels like a sauna, the steering wheel burns your hands as you drive and when you turn on the A/C it blasts searing hot air at you for the first 2 km so you feel like you have opened an oven door in your face.
- they are predicting temps of over 40C teamed with high winds - the perfect recipe for a bush fire
- Kamikaze Christmas beetles attack you when you walk outside at night
- the Fish Market is going to stay open all night and there's a rumour that the price of prawns has hit an all time high
- all the previous year's talk of changing the Xmas lunch menu to something that more befits the climate goes out the window and you decide (yet again) on roast turkey - in the 40C heat
- you wonder, yet again, why Australians insist on including carols such as Jingle Bells in carol services when there is a snowball's chance that you will ever witness a white christmas
- your husband talks of putting up the wading pool and kicking back with a beer after Xmas lunch