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  1. A news piece about the fires’ effects on Australian tourism in the British Guardian newspaper today – a domestic Australian piece asking its citizens to “Please come back”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/10/back-to-the-bush-three-recovering-nsw-regions-eager-for-visitors

    On the BBC News site today, though, there is a film-clip feature about the insane 30-year rains and floods that are presently hitting the capital Sydney and its surrounds.

    Meanwhile, here in quiet, dozy, normally dependably merely damp and drizzly, old Britain, we were nearly blown away by a huge Atlantic storm yesterday, with many of the rivers of the English North and of Scotland now in raging flood. Even here, in the more staid South, on the far western edge of London, I saw crows and a single, normally unflappable Red Kite flying backyards at speed yesterday morning…

    WHAT is going on?!

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