THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD The front door of the hollow tree faced eastwards, so Toad was called at an early hour; partly by the bright sunlight streaming in on him, partly by the exceeding coldness of his toes, which made him dream that he was at home in bed in his own handsome room with the Tudor window, on a cold winter's night, and his bedclothes had got up, grumbling and protesting they couldn't stand the cold any longer, and had run downstairs to the kitchen fire to warm themselves; a
Mechanically, I obeyed, turned eastwards, and with my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house.
Bushfires, red alerts, emergency patient monitoring and even mass animal deaths have been recorded as the heatwave inches eastwards, swallowing all national heat records and the towns that held them.
