Ugh, fire issues have been very ugly around our place the past couple of days. These are the fires at Pirron Yallock/Stoney Rises (I think the media may be calling them Camperdown, but they are a lot closer to us than Camperdown). DH was the incident controller all yesterday (got home at 2am) and then the damn things flared up again and he was out all day today. Jusdt got home. Like Vanita, I hate it when he goes, but what can you do. Unfortunately Vanita, DH gets no O/T...he's a volunteer :frown: - although our Ops Manager told him today that he would double his wage (cheeky bugger). The problem with DH is that he is one of only a handful in our region that is qualified to "run" a big fire, so he gets called out quite a bit. There's been a few houses lost and I think about 800ha burnt out.

We are off to Melbourne on Wednesday for our anniversary. We are staying at the Windsor for a couple of nights (as we do every year). I am having my ultrasound on Thursday, so fingers crossed for me. Nothing to suggest that anythign is wrong, but nothing is 100% guarranteed in this world hey?

It is supposed to be a sh*t day on Wed and Thurs fire wise, so comforting thoughts to Vanita and anyone else that has to go out to the red stuff. At least my DH will be with me on hard cement for those days!!