It’s still really rainy. The water is over the bridge in town. Varsha had Luca and Finn and Thiango over for a Monopoly game it lasted 5 hours!

Laxmi and I went out in the garden and planted turmeric and ginger when the rain eased up a bit.

Laxmi has been playing Prodigy, the maths game and is getting excited about learning how to use a 3D drawing app called sketch up.

Rainy days: watching Iron Man, Merlin, Marie Kondo, reading The Wizard of Earthsea and Harry Potter, playing Tangled and Sleeping Queens, Twister, Monopoly and chess. Dinner and board games and charades at Zeph’s last night. Lovely!

Cosi and Laxmi have had some big days role playing with the plushies.

Varsha has been drawing and doing watercolours and watching Merlin.

Melissa came over and cut Laxmi’s hair.

Varsha and I made mulberry muffins last night. We watched Marie Kondo in Tidying Up on Netflix too.

Last night Varsha and Laxmi practiced their signatures.

We got up early and went to a friend’s farm and picked 10 kilograms of mulberries!

We had a lovely Dal Bati feast for my birthday. Bati are cooked over a cow dung fire in Rajasthan. Cat and Will and Cosi and Thiango and Zeph and Luca and Finn all came.

Laxmi and I walked the dog following the amount Molloy visitors map looking at places of interest.

We also walked around Babbler Hill where this lovely wattle was flowering.

We took Harriet and Milly and Cosmo to the airport. Then we had a sleepover at Koah Hall with the homeschoolers. It was a postponed end of year event with a graduation ceremony and a concert in the evening.

The next day Varsha and Tekira clippered their hair. We had a swim in the Clohesy on the way home. The water was running really fast.

Dick brought over a hawkmoth caterpillar and its amazing metallic looking cocoon for us to see.

We went to the Cairns Aquarium for Dakoda’s birthday. It was amazing. Varsha did lots of sketches.