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Bushfire awakening

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In my last post I talked about my visit to Braidwood to pick up a raffle quilt that I had won and where I spent a wonderful couple of hours visiting with the ladies of Braidwood Quilters. My drive out to Braidwood almost didn’t happen because of a large bushfire in Nelligen.   While I visited Braidwood we talked about the terrible drought afflicting New South Wales.   One of the ladies commented that visitors to the Exhibition were lower than normal because farmers are doing it hard at the moment and there is less money to spend.  A dry State means lots of fuel for fires. I managed to get up Kings Highway which was thick with smoke from the bushfire and made it to Braidwood.   However, since then a new bushfire just outside Braidwood has spread and the Kings Highway is often closed.   It is a tragedy and very distressing to think of the farmers and other people living in the region who have lost property. Here in Rosedale we are getting a lot of smoke, but so far, no fires.