Sepia Saturday 486 7 September 2019
School days. Good morning everyone. Good morning Mrs So - and - so.....said in a long drawn out sing-song voice. I have spent a restless night, waking frequently to hear wind moaning as it snakes its way in through door and window crevices. It's not good. There are fires raging around south-east Queensland and parts of NSW. I am worried for the good folk at Binna Burra, Stanthorpe, Applethorpe, Tenterfield and Armidale. All this week, as I have driven from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, I have been driving through smoke haze from about Helensvale onwards. We've had a dry end to winter a nd the climate outlook for the remainder of the year shows an increased risk of bushfires. When I looked for bushfires and schools on Trove, I found photos of the Hornsby Home Science School which was destroyed by bushfire on 30 November 1957 . It wasn't the first time the school had been threatened by a fire. Newspaper articles give ac...