Water Hyacinth.

Return to J.C.Slaughter Falls.

After all the rain yesterday......I checked our rain gauge and we had 103 mms......we drove to J.C Slaughter Falls, while Peta sat with Dulcie, to finally see it in torrent.......pish tush!

Return of the Idiot!...and other news.

So.......I have a new phone!Will got a new one about a month ago....the one he researched for two months before he got it.Well, he also got me one, like his, last week. It was an unexpected surprise. I like it, it's good but I am still getting used to it. I can talk to it, like "Hey, Google, send a text to Will saying 'I am on my way home',"....and it does!We have been tethering our laptops to our mobile phones and using our phone data allowances to get on the internet but it has not been ideal so we finally took the plunge and have ordered 'unlimited' broadband.We have been waiting eagerly for the new modem to arrive and expected it at the end of last week but it did not arrive. We felt sure it would arrive Monday....but it didn't.Yesterday I went to Garden City for my two hours respite. I did a little shopping but wandered the vast mall for exercise.

On the news later we learned of flash floods nearby and people rescued from cars and that there had been flooding in Fortitude Valley!Will had choir tonight and had to go on Jaxy because I needed Roxy to collect my wallet.I set off into the city after Dulcie went to bed, parked in the Valley and ran to the Police Station and back....I had no money for the parking meter....because I didn't have my wallet!Luckily I got back before I got a parking ticket. It would have been the last straw!My debit card had been cut in half.......as a precaution.......I shall have to get that sorted out.I am an idiot!

The boys are back in town!

How rude!Just as we arrive back in Brisbane all the World leaders head off with their new salt-water crocodile skin bags without even saying goodbye to us.It was 41 degrees here when we got back.....Dulcie and Wendi were shut in with the air-con on.It was much cooler this morning down by the Clarence and we had a little walk with Tracy before heading up to the Ashby markets, where Jen was at her leather stall, for lunch before setting off home.Of course everyone who left Brisbane on Friday with us was heading back and so we were delayed another hour in a terrible traffic jam near Bangalow and Byron Bay.Our route -

It took more than 3 hrs  14 mins.

Happy days!