Hot Hot Hot and Home and Away

Boy is it hot here in Oz. I've just been out in the back garden to hang the washing up. I got back and drank the regulation litre of water and then took a deep breath and went back out to retrieve the clothes before they all burst into flames. Only kidding, I waited all of 3 minutes before going back out.

Yesterday was a bit cooler and I borrowed my sisters car and went up to Palm Beach. Palm Beach is a nice beach a few kilometres north of Sydney and is famous for obscenely expensive houses and it is where some of the outdoor scenes of Home And Away are shot. There were a line of big white trucks parked at the north end of the beach so I parked the car and joined the small (50) crowd of people watching the shooting. If you watch the soap here is a preview of a scene you will see some time soon. I don't watch, nothing against Aussie soaps I should add but these two characters walked along talking, probably about the latest infidelity, marital or otherwise taking place.

The first time they got it wrong and they did it again. Then the director shouted, "Cut and lunch". The young lady in the shot stayed out for quite a while talking to the crowd and having her photo taken with many of them and chatting with them with obvious enjoyment, not giving away to many story lines though. If at some time you see the scene on TV remember you saw it here first.