"Chemicals are bad, " I told my family, and proceeded to use something called the Fertility Awareness Method, which basically involves wishful thinking and a temperaturechart.
The heatwave across Australia in recent weeks has been so intense that the Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new shade to its colour-coded temperaturechart, so the scale now reaches above 50C.
The fires have been caused by days of searing heat across much of the country - so much so that Australia's Bureau of Meteorology was last week forced to add a new shade to its colour-coded temperaturechart, for heat above 50C.