The curse continues....

News from Western Australia that there are bush fires burning out of control on the outskirts of Perth, moving at 100m an hour, with 40 homes and a bridge destroyed and many more threatened in strong and unpredictable winds. I'm going there next month. Perhaps you're thinking this is just an Australian thing, hogging the headlines with the floods, the killer cyclone and all? I think not.

Meanwhile, no word of any sort of disaster from Malaysia, where I was going to be travelling in a couple of weeks' time, but backed out for various reasons. Case closed, I think.