The passionfruit vine is covered in flowers, so I can look forward to lots of yummy sun-warmed tangy passionfruit juice to slurp. We freeze what we don't give away, eat or swap and always get a few extra months to enjoy the fruit. The fruit salad tree, a graft of plum, peach and nectarine has dropped a lot of fruit early and I suspect, in the long run , it will just be too hot here for it. A shame, but I have resigned myself to the fact that if it's not a drought tolerent native or a medditerranean plant, it's just going to need too much water.

It's a 35 degrees celcius day today and we are hiding indoors. This year to get through Summer, I plan to become an honourary Mexican. Get up around 4am and do whatever work I'd do for the first part of the day. Knock off at 11am. Siesta till 3. Pick up kids from school. Stay up till midnight. If Australia continues to get hotter, I hope we all have the sense to adopt this lifestyle permanently! At least the watertank is still half full for the garden. We hope to get a second tank soon for toilet flushing. And I'll get some quotes this coming week for those awnings. I might get some quotes from window tinting companies about the films you can get for the windows that simulate double glazing. Never a dull moment!