Snakes and dragonfruit

Laxmi and I have been doing yoga together in the mornings.

There are lots of dragonfruit ripening in the garden.

Varsha was taken by the name of these Philippino snacks we found in the Asian grocery.

We went down to Cairns to see Linda Jackson’s show and hear her artist’s talk and do the workshop designing ponchos.


A tree snake came into the house. We heard it because it had a rhinoceros beetle screeching in its mouth. We helped it find its way out of the house.

We went to Cairns for swing dancing. Laxmi came for the first time. She loved it. We did some errands and stopped at a coffee shop beforehand. Laxmi did a drawing on a serviette. We talked to John in Brisbane on the phone.

It was really hot and we decided to spend some time in the air conditioned library after the appointment at the bank. Laxmi really liked her tiger friend. We borrowed some good books.

Laxmi has decided she’s going to have a magical creatures birthday party.

John’s birthday

Varsha found a nice spot to read Catcher in the Rye.

Laxmi thinks she might be related to the girls in the mural outside the supermarket.

We had lunch at Dino’s on John’s birthday.

Varsha and Laxmi made cards got John’s birthday and Varsha made him a birthday dog.

We looked up the most common birthdays and found some cool graphics.

This week was the 5th week of learning a routine at swing dancing. Everyone had got really good.

The dam has been great to swim in since it got hot.

The rain eased up a bit this week. Varsha went to see Finn off at the airport and we all went swing dancing.

We went to the dentist and the orthodontist in Mareeba on Wednesday.

On Thursday we went to Malanda to the games day with the Tablelands Homeschoolers. There were theatre games and board games. Laxmi played chess and Varsha played a version of dungeons and dragons. We went op shopping and looked at some of the big mosaics in Malanda.

Dakoda came over for a play on Friday. Cosi came for a while too. They played in the rain, did some sewing and drawing and made videos of each other cooking.

It’s still really rainy. Playing lots of games and watching things. Varsha was inspired to refine her wardrobe after we watched The rest of Marie Kondos Tidying up shows.

It cleared up a bit and went into Mareeba for shopping and op shopping and the library.

Yesterday was the first activity with the Homeschoolers for Term 1. We went ten pin bowling in Atherton and to the park for a play afterwards.