A little over a week ago the Bureau of Meteorology announced that we’ve moved back in to an El Niño weather pattern. The tropical waters North-East of Australia are cooler than normal, meaning there’s less evaporation and so less clouds across Eastern Australia.

Have you ever received an SMS telling you to urgently pay a toll? An email informing you of an incredible investment opportunity? An unsolicited telephone call apparently from a reputable organisation asking for your personal details? Or a Facebook friend request from someone whose name you don’t know and whose somewhat provocative profile photo you suspect is probably not a photo of them at all? If so, you have almost definitely been the target of a scam.

I’ve been reading a fair bit over the last few weeks about Alan Joyce and his golden parachute - a lavish severance package in the order of millions of dollars that he now gets to enjoy as he floats back to earth in retirement.

I want to tell you about a dinner conversation I had this week with my children regarding brain worms and the Holy Spirit. It’s possible you missed hearing about the surgery at Canberra Hospital of a woman who had gone to hospital with pains in her stomach, diarrhoea, a cough, a fever and experiencing forgetfulness and depression. The hospital did a brain scan, noticed something abnormal, then did another one and noticed it’d moved, so they decided to operate. To everyone in the operating theatres’ surprise, they pulled out a very active worm, about 8cm long.

I heard someone say once that every system is perfectly designed to give you the results it gets. The Robodebt Royal Commission report was handed down a week ago, and I’ve had a thumb through the recommendations.