Australia ... food for heavenly bodies?

This was my blog post for December 23rd 2012 in another place ...

"Hot, hot, hotter ...
By rim on 23 December 2012 - 11:18pm

 Down heah in the deep sowarth, we narrowly cheated the weather plotters once again, with the max. temp. only reaching 38c this arvo.
 I stayed indoors all day, following a 50 min walk up and down the surrounding hills just after 6.30 this morning. The sun was already high, but the air and ground temp. was still cool and crisp at that time.
All down-hill since then though. I think we were lucky a promised northerly failed to materialize ... but then, neither did the predicted cool south-westerlies supposed to reach here by early evening.


Sorry I'm rambling on about the climate ... but, it's really the only 'game in town'."

Accompanying the above was supposed to be a cartoon depicting the Sun and Moon breakfasting on Australia's discomfort. It didn't appear as planned because of a glitch which prevented posting of images on that site at the time.

I archived the 'toon as 'unpublished' with the hope that the circumstances of its making would replicate in time. That has happened today (Wednesday EST) with Fairfax media carrying a story about the 11 months since last September being the overall hottest period ever for Australia with the augury that worse is to come in the future. It even quotes records showing that this July has been close to the warmest since meteorological records began for the country.

Must say, I didn't notice anything even luke-warm over the past 31 days down heah in the deep Sowarth. In fact, all the local brass monkeys have abandoned ship ... and not, I can assure you dear reader, because it was hot!