Japanese, Birds and Other Things Discovered.

Laxmi is still enjoying learning Japanese on Duolingo.

Laxmi wanted to know what bird was singing outside her window. We looked it up in YouTube and in the bird book.

It’s warming up and the big dragonfruit blossoms are coming out. Will brought two jackfruit from their tree at their new house. Varsha cut them up when they were ready.

Varsha has been using pen and gouache. Laxmi is using comic markers and pen. Laxmi and Dakoda have been playing a game called scribble.io where they have to draw something and the other person has to guess what it is.

We rearranged furniture in the playroom and sorted through the dress ups.


Varsha still loves going to swing with Luca and Maya. Maya is teaching swing with Kellie in Cairns.


Maya and Varsha performed at a fair in Atherton. Millie, their music teacher, organised to have several of her students play.

There were some cool old cars at the fair too. This was Laxmi’s favourite.

We are all excited that the poincianas are starting to bloom. Laxmi took this photo.

It was Takira’s birthday and they had a day in Mareeba going op shopping and having a picnic.

Varsha discovered that most commonly the oldest word for a colour in a language is for blue. We looked up the word for blue in lots of different languages.

October

Varsha finished their doll makeover

We had a barbecue for Will’s birthday and helped them move house.

I went to Tennant Creek again. This time I was working with Carolyn McLennan looking at the collection at Nyinkka Nyunyu. One of the employees had the sweetest baby rescue donkey. I found the Warramungu word for Grey Crested Babbler and brought home some lovely painted tobacco tins by Rachel Granites as souvenirs.

We went to the historic village in Herberton. We had all been looking forward to it for a while. We dressed up and had a fabulous time. The printer and the blacksmith were really interesting.

Halloween was the same day as the Historic Village. We did a quick outfit change and went out trick or treating. Some people had gone to a lot of trouble to make things fun for everyone. We met some new people too.

September

We have had several busy months. Here’s some of the things we did in September. We played an old favourite, the monster game.

Laxmi was excited to receive a parcel from Grandma with some mittens she had made.

Varsha and Luca had a fabulous time at the Swing Festival though we all missed Thiango.

Varsha and Thiango were MC at the Variety Night.

I went to Tennant Creek to put up an exhibition by Dion Beasley. When I got home we started preparing to go to Wallaby Creek Festival and Varsha’s birthday.

Varsha and Laxmi made some more pottery and we made a plaster mould for paper mache masks.

At Wallaby Creek Laxmi danced to the Secret Tuesdays.

We had workshops to devise a fashion parade performance and made costumes out of found materials.

Laxmi did a juggling workshop and went to the poets breakfast.

Varsha had another best birthday ever.