Crazy weather

We have had a few days up at "The Camp" - lovely and quiet now all the holiday makers have gone - but the rain was continuous. We had a short break on Tuesday that allowed us to get the grass cut but while we were there we had 50mm (2 inches) of rain.

We get back home and its poring rain - 38mm (one and a half inches) overnight.

Queensland, our northernmost state, is being inundated and many areas of Queensland and Northern New South Wales are being evacuated. Moree, a significant city on the inland rout northwards has has 1,600 people evacuated in the past 24 hours.

Sydney, the New South Wales capital city, had a temperature of 30C last Sunday - the first day this summer that the temperature has gone of 30C this summer and the last time that occurred was in 1999. They have also had unseasonal, almost continual rain fall.

Now, if that's not been enough we are now facing the prospect of a huge iceberg 'calving' off a glacier in Antarctica. This thing is huge and will cause a localised tsunami when it 'calves' off as well as contribute to seal level raising.