Frogknot catch up.

So...the last three weeks have been taken up with showing Lewis and Nathan what it is like living here in Australia but now it is back to the old routine…Here is a catch up on other matters…

The chickens are doing well though we have had to clip the wings on Isis and Keket as they kept on escaping the pen. Isis is now being good but Keket continues to get out whenever she can...even with clipped wings.

On the first morning back at Frogknot after our trip to Canberra and Sydney one of the cockerels crowed for the first time but the hens have not yet started laying.

While we were away I picked up another supply day at the end of May and was asked to cover a Teaching Assistant post for a day but couldn't as I was a 800 kms away.

7 Celtis St was under contract to be sold, then it wasn't but now it is again...so hopefully that saga will all be over soon.

As for my camera....it broke again the day the boys arrived and I took it back to the shop the day we came back from Stradbroke Island. The same thing was happening that had happened to the previous two cameras with it over exposing certain shots. The long and the short of it was that Fuji could no longer replace it as they do not make that model anymore, nor were they prepared to replace it with a different model. I was offered a refund by the camera shop but it was only as credit in their store. I emailed them and said that as it was unlikely that I could afford anything in their shop even with the credit I would prefer the cash refund so that I could spend it elsewhere. Even though a cash refund was against their policy they agreed. My search for a replacement begins.

Roxy managed the trip really well. You may remember the overheating problems before the boys arrived but apart from a few moments where the temperature rose above normal, usually on uphill slopes, she coped really well all the way. I think Will running the engine with the radiator cap off got rid of any air bubbles in the system and I never once had to top the radiator up the whole way round.

We had a message from Deranie to say:

"..of everything in Phoebe's holidays the thing that she most wants to do again is having Lewis and Nathan visit".

Isn't that lovely?!

Oh...and I got a speeding ticket bringing the boys up to Frogknot!

I was doing 67 in a 60 km per hour zone. Damn!...$157 and a demerit on my license!