" I wish I could go to the pool today"Sighed Jessie,looking out the Blue Moon Kitchen window at the fierce blue sky.Her mother didn't answer,so Jessie tired again,raising her voice over the radio. "It's going to be really hot again today"She said. I wishe you didn't have to go to work,mum. Then you could take me swimming." She looked sideways at her mother. But Roesmary still didn't answer. She didn't even seem to be listening. She switched off the radio and started rushing around with a piece of toast in one of her hand and her car keys in the other, the belt nurses' uniform dangling from behind her.
Jessie edged toward her "I wish it wasn't so hot" she completed."I wish we were somewhere cooler. I wish Granny's car was fixed so she could take me to the pool. I wish -"
"I wish I could find my sunglasses! snapped Rosemary. "And I wish you'd stop complaining and being so selfish Jessie! Think about what other people are going through. Theses terrible fires . . . " she bit her lip and turned away.
Jessie went back to the window and frowned at the sky. There wasn't a cloud to be seen. Just haze from the smoke of bur
