Good morning Dale & Brian, just awake after 3 hrs sleep. Not sure where you're getting your information from Brian, but its been three weeks since the fire was that far from us - last night it was no more than a kilometre from here. It has been sitting in containment lines about 15-20 kms due north of us for a fortnight now. Yesterday it spotted over to Deptford (5 kms due north) and roared (and I mean ROARED) past us driven by a north-east wind and is currently threatening Bruthen. A few degrees further to the north would have seen the fire right on us. My post asking for prayer wasn't a panic attack. We are as well prepared physically as is possible to be, and as christians we are absolutely free from anxiety, its nice to know though that someone else is thinking of you. We have been prepared for thirty years for a bushfire, we wouldn't be living here otherwise.
For the moment we are safe, but have been warned that until the projected cool change come through around lunch time things may get torrid again.
Thank you both (and anyone else) for your thoughts and encouragement.
Bob.
