jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> dixit:
>> jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
>>> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> dixit:
>>>

8>< shnitt

>> You have forgotten your cat math where
>> cat + warm thing = warm, happy cat which is not equal to cat + too hot
>> thing.  Our cats prefer a nice concave shape to curl up in to a flat
>> surface, especially when it is cold.  And, they've been known to pile on
>> to make a flat surface into a concave shape.
> 
> I'd defy any cat to make itself comfortable on my stove's burners; not
> that they'd get much chance to try in our kitchen. Anyway, there are
> much better cat-amenable warm places such as the central heating outlets.

Ours do not try to sleep on the stove, but the warmer / cooker in the
middle of the kitchen table and the box that the single burner gas stove
gets put in have some sort of allure.

What are these "central heating outlets"?  No Japanese manufacturer has
invented them yet ... or none of the houses within our purchasing budget
were designed by people who knew what they are, either.

>> Isn't ビクトリア州の山火事 an annual event?  Sort of like matsuri time
>> in 盛岡市?  
> 
> Indeed. The change this summer was to have them start so early, and to
> have such a big one (it started as a heap of small fires after lightning
> strikes, but eventually coalesced.

Not like the ones in California where they're lit by pyromaniacs, then.
 Australians have to rely on divine intervention, like Texans do?

CL