i meant december

you are still asleep.

but thanks - didn't think i'd get any responses here. ever.

I am trying to remember the last time I meant December.

I am sure there must have been many occasions when I got the month wrong. I do recall going up to a young lady recently, whom I thought I recognised.

I said, "June, isn't it?"

She said, "No, it's August you silly old fool"


That's the closest I can get to December right now.:P

I also just realized that this is posted in Environment interest so I must modify my response. December in various parts of the world is a harsh time for the environment. Bitterly cold at times makes it difficult for animals to find food. The landscape in the cold regions are bleak and with a stark beauty. Winter solstice begins....

hiya, this wasn't even a discussion - it was a correction to the one before it (about un climate summit) but thankyou very much for coming here

Sorry Jb, still it was fun. Might be more interesting than ice cream and pizza but not more than 2012 pillows...

i meant it was nice of you to come along.

i think you've said something about this before - bush fires are incredibly destructive and i was shocked when you said that some of them are certainly started deliberately. that is an incredibly stupid thing for people to do just because they are bored. so does this new rating mean that they are expected to be worse than last year?

Hi Cloudwatcher, I just read Jb's comment and I had never really given much thought to bushfires in Austrailia. I am going to look them up. Do you encounter them frequently in December?

We experience bushfires anytime in the hot weather, with possibly December-February the worst. We have had several years of severe drought which has made the danger much higher, and the fires more catastrophic when they hit.

In the Victorian bushfires less than a year ago, firefighters had to relearn techniques. Fires have always rushed along the ground, but in those fires, giant fireballs travelled through the air for many kilometres, landing in a "safe" area with disastrous results. Two hundred people lost their lives, 2000 homes were destroyed with whole towns wiped out in the 595 fires. It is estimated that over one million animals died as the 1600 square miles burned.

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Thanks cloudwatcher for the info. It sounds frighteningly tragic. I can't imagine the huge fireballs you wrote about. I am going to read your blogs now and come back.