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