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[todayiamadaisy]

My mother ended up having quite an exciting trip home from her holiday. She's not a keen traveller nowadays at the best of times, a far cry from her moped-riding-around-Australia younger self. She called me from the airport Sunday evening, after she was meant to have taken off. The plane had boarded, but then they had to disembark due to a fault, and so she was just kicking about the airport waiting for a replacement plane. At least that gave me a chance to update her on the bushfire situation, the pertinent point being that the highway was closed and the train tracks had burnt, so the City by the Sea was cut off from Melbourne, where her plane was due to land.

Anyway, she made it to Melbourne five hours later than anticipated, and presented herself at the train station on Monday morning to find out how to get home. Fortunately the highway had re-opened that morning, so the train was running as far as it could, then all the passengers changed to coaches for the rest of the way. I had to go and collect her at the City by the Sea's train station, and it was chaos. Buses everywhere to replace the trains. I wonder where they all came from? Presumably there were some bus services not running on account of the buses being pressed into train service.

There's still an awful lot of smoke.