We went to see Thiango’s opening night in the musical Oliver at the Clink Theatre in Port Douglas this week. We all really enjoyed it.
It’s been raining every day still. It’s getting cooler though.
Varsha and Laxmi have had music again.
The markets were on.
And young creatives. Varsha has been working on her prototypes for production items.
Dakoda has come over for a play a few times. Laxmi and Dakoda made some beaded jewellery.
I went to Tennant Creek for 10 days to help Erica with her new job . I left John and Varsha and Laxmi at home. John sent me these photos of them at home one cosy evening.
I flew into Alice Springs airport for the first time in many years. I caught the shuttle bus past the Gap and met up with a lawyer who gave me a lift to Tennant Creek.
Erica has started work at the art and culture centre. It’s been closed for a while and she and the staff there are going to reopen it.
It was very hot and there were lots of flies. The sunsets were very beautiful.
Our good friend, Kev, has been living in Tennant Creek for a long time now. He helped us a lot and we enjoyed his lovely backyard.
It was really great to see all the art they will have in the shop and in the exhibition space.
Kev drove me to the airport in Alice Springs. We had to leave before dawn. It was so beautiful to drive through the big landscape. This picture was taken coming into Barrow Creek.
John flew to Adelaide an hour before I landed back in Cairns. The landscape driving home was such a contrast to Central Australia.
A beautiful rainbow landed on our house on the morning of Laxmi’s birthday.
Laxmi invited some of her friends from the Tablelands Homeschoolers to her party. They had to drive quite a way to get here so we had her party early. She invited Grandma Jan and Grandpa Ken as well. They flew up from NSW. The theme was magical creatures.
Laxmi dressed up as an angel bunny.
We started with long balloons to make into creatures.
Then we played pin the moon on the wolf.
We had an obstacle course based on Temple Theives mini game in Roblox. There were lasers and swinging acid bottles and see saw planks. John was the Gem Keeper.
We finished off with a yummy chocolate birthday cake.
Lorne turned 83. We had pizza and cake to celebrate.
Varsha and Laxmi painted a wolf for the pin the moon on the wolf game for Laxmi’s birthday.
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.
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!
