What do you know – no sooner has the trip to Cairns been booked when the heavens opened up and tried, sometimes successfully, to destroy the houses, roads, farmlands and more. BK keeps checking the weather report, and it seems that it’s still raining there! You know, people tell me the land of the giant springhase is a dry place…

The motorways around Townsville are still closed, and Ingham is still cut off from the rest of the world as far as I can see. So the problem is how BK will get from Cairns to Brisbane because the campervan trip idea is disappearing faster than the Zim dollar can lose value. But of course that is the least of the problems – the people of Northern Queensland has to clean up and rebuild after the floods, and our hearts are with them.

BK recalls the first memory of floods (no, not the 40 days and 40 nights one, that was before my time!) – it was the floods at Laingsburg in the now Western Cape. The devastation was widespread and the tv showed people in tears who had lost everything. And even though donations flowed in and people donated food, bedding, furniture, clothes and the like, there is no way of replacing the photos and memories that was lost.

Now in Queensland with the floods and Victoria with the fires, we once again see families who has lost everything, and in some cases lost loved ones, and all we can do is to open our hearts and open our wallets and help as much as we can. At least while these people are dealing with the loss, let’s help them do it without having to worry about food and a place to sleep.

Bosveldgroete!