Yesterday was the day with the hottest average temperature in Australian recorded history. In Newcastle the mercury reached 41 C, and in Sydney 43. The extreme dry heat was accompanied with very strong, hit winds, and the fire conditions were at the highest rating of ‘catastrophic’.
It was very unpleasant to be outside 🙂
That’s a photo of a reunion of four people that have been friends since we were 16. Kirsten (back left), Juliet, Matthew and myself. We met at Kirsten’s for a long and relaxing lunch yesterday, during which we talked about old times and current times and the sorts of things 40-year-olds who haven’t seen each other for many years chat about.
Here’s better shots of Kirsten and Matthew:
Kirsten unearthed an ancient box of photographs from our school days, and lots of laughing and embarrassment was then had by everyone as we were repeatedly amazed by our teenage selves. How embarrassing you ask? How are these for examples:
Hard to describe the above. Why on earth is the shirt tucked in??
As Matthew said, it’s a good thing I grew into my ears! (I was 16 in the above.)
There I am in the full St Mary’s school uniform. That was year 10, so I was 17. I used to get a haircut from a guy named Ford Lamonte and one day he talked me into bleaching my hair. As you can see, the results were exceedingly handsome 🙂
Maybe I should start bleaching it again?
