----- Original Message -----
From: "Patty Jansen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: happy New Year (NSR)


> Dear all,
>
> A very happy New Year from Sydney, the unofficial bushfire capital of the
> world.
>
> Thanks for all your private messages with your concerns about the fires.
We
> haven't had to worry, but if the fire brigade don't manage to put out a
new
> large fire in an inner-city national park overnight, we will start
worrying
> tomorrow.
>
> For once, I am starting to think snow and ice and even tropical cyclones
> weren't such a bad deal, and if you are having any right now, enjoy them,
> they're better than bushfires.
>
> As for the shell cabinets (have to say something about shells here), they
> will stay firmly shut until soot, ashes and blackened leaves have stopped
> raining from the sky (can anyone remind me what colour sunlight is
supposed
> to be?)
>
> Hope your New Year's Day is better than ours!
>
> Patty Jansen
>
> (in Sydney, Australia)