From One Extreme -

- to the other. While many parts of Australia are suffering unprecedented drought; England has been battered by heavy, relentless rain causing flood conditions in dozens of locations across the UK and warnings of a week of more of the same. How I wish I could send the rain to my Aussie friends.

On Sunday when I flew from Brisbane on the way to England, I began to feel unwell. Two days on, I have bronchitis and zero energy. I'm almost always healthy so am going to be an impatient patient.