Heatwave Hit

12.15 PM

Extremely hot. Debilitating.

Showered at Moruya sth side spot, then it hit. Too hot to sit around so decided to drive to Batemans Bay to the post office box, get some electricity into the batteries constantly struggling with the fridge, and now sitting under the bridge in the shade and merciful breeze.

After today, two more days forecast worse. Heat plus jammed-in bad public behaviour, crowds and cars and holiday hungriness everywhere equals my nightmare.

Too tired to paint- woke at 3 AM something, and just trying to get through the day.

4.10 PM

Unbelievably hot. Sugars plummeted dangerously, sensor alarm going berserk. After lunch, too, as though lunch didn’t register.

Bought a new kettle in the Bay.

Long way then to Broulee pharmacy for Galvumet.

The obnoxious girls who turned up last night and from whom I had to move away, arseholes, are still at Waldrens. Saw them going past, to the bay. Saw them when back, and I kept going past, to Moruya.

Imagine, obnoxious selfish idiots stuck in the sun, inside a van, in a barren rest area alllllllll day. Fuck that. Stay right away.

So I’m cooking dinner at Riverside Park, stopped in the shade on the road because all the grassy shade is taken up with similar heat refugees. Listening to my fridge not coping, at all.

These heatwaves are horrific and frightening. The landscape hurts. I hurt for the landscape.

Can’t think straight. Half dead. Sweaty and sticky and oppressed.

6.35 PM

Appallingly hot. Not feeling well. Sedan pulled up behind, could be a noise problem. It might be their radio going. Can’t handle noise as well as heat. Yay, they’re leaving. Phew.

But the spot is open. And it’s the “best” one left.

And bastard. It wasn’t their radio. Fuck.

8.15 PM

Noise from new van tourists, young and in a bubble.

Had a wash down, lovely, but immediately hot again.

In bed. Fly screen over the sliding door, pulled out of storage. Fridge stop start can’t operate properly in hot environment.

Anyway, bring on the mongrel night. Two more days aftet it.

Can’t wait to fall unconscious ie sleep, if I can.

No one behind me, in the spot, yet.

9 15 PM

Bored myself tired with a crap tv show. It is intolerably hot. People unsettled here and there. Will try to sleep.