The mystery of the disappearing moth.

So...this morning I pulled back the curtain that we have hung at the backdoor to keep the draft out ( because the back door does not close properly due to the crumbling walls) and was startled to see a giant moth on the wall. It was huge and bigger than some if the birds in the garden! I grabbed a glass to catch it but it was too big for the opening and fluttered off at my attempt to trap it. I grabbed our tennis racket shaped fly electrocution device, not to kill it but to coax it down from its lofty fluttering to a level more conducive to me catching it when suddenly it disappeared. Quite literally it was there one minute and I was reaching up to it with the racket thing and the next moment it was gone and I do not remember looking away.  It completely vanished before my eyes. After a slightly comprehensive search of possible hiding places nearby I found nothing and concluded it would probably reappear at some later inconvenient moment.But even tonight, with what little light we have (due to the miserable weather) to coax it from it's hiding place, it did not reappear.I have made sure the net over the bed is gap free tonight. I don't want that thing fluttering onto my face in the dark...it was so big it would probably knock me out or at least break my nose if it landed on it!

Whinging Pom!

So...it's getting to be just like Manchester here with yet another 24 hours of rain.The dam is still rising and I moved the marker, we are using to record the highest level, another inch higher today. The forecast for next week is further rain which is all well and good but when you need the sun to give you power it makes it a long week.Yes, we have our generators but Geronimo guzzles petrol and Jenny 2 is not working. (I know! How unlucky are we? It's nothing we have done. She worked the first time we unpacked her but has not gone since).I just a bit fed up at the moment...The things that get me down...

1. Dull, grey, wet days and therefore less free power.
2. The wet weather means more grit sticks to your shoes and I am having to constantly sweep the house.
3. Jenny 2 is not working which means we have to use Geronimo for the more menial tasks and 'he' guzzles petrol.
4. The satellite internet takes at least an hour to come online. We have 65gb of offpeak  (1.00 a.m - 6.00 a.m) data to use but when I got up at 4.30 this morning to switch it on it was still not connected at 5.45!
5. Blinkin' frogs! They are loving this wet weather but go outside and they are almost deafening with their calls. 8 years I have been coming to Frogknot and never heard a Pobblebonk until this year and yes, it was great at first but now I hope I never hear another one for another 8 years.
6. Rain gets down the chimney, despite the cap on it, and dislodges creosote which blocks the flue and makes the stove smoke...but we need to light the stove so we have hot water.
7. Trying to find dry wood.

Whinge, whinge, whinge.

No surprises this time...

Hey 'Up Over'!Guess what?...We are coming to see you early next year...and for a month!We booked our flights today...so excited!

Byron Bay and 'Swell' 2016.

So...this weekend we went down to the sea. We met Trace and Jen at Byron Bay where Jen had been selling her wares on a stall at a gathering of Biker Chicks. We stayed Sunday night in a cabin at a holiday park and then drove up to Currumbin the next day to see this years 'Swell' sculpture festival. It is our third year visiting it and I think this year was the most disappointing...see what you think...

Back in the dark.

So...We are back from our trip to the coast. I will upload the pics from that trip tomorrow.We had to take a different route home, to the one we intended to take, as Cunningham's Gap was closed due to an accident. It made the journey slightly longer but much more interesting.This little fellow was waiting for us when we got back.A Tawny Frogmouth...