Last Friday Em, Jim and I went exploring we ate ant eggs, sharpened pocket knives on stones and found a subterranean tunnel which was making odd sounds. Jimmy declared that it was probably lava. I think that is exactly what it was.

Jim filled his water bottle from a spring. We boiled it up over a fire and made some bush tea. I hope Jim did not have any tummy upsets when I sent him home with Nicole.

This morning we all had a beautiful swim down the Jetty. Well Cheri, Jay and I, the varmints had other plans. It were fine. Afterwards we visited the markets. I was after some secondhand shoes because I left my favourite shoes on the roof of the car whilst driving home from kickboxing in Bellingen last week. It's embarrassing being me sometimes.

Whilst Brisbane flooded we got a tail end of the cyclone. Which meant rain. Jessica and Allie, our climate refugees, along with Jason, Cheri and my boys decided it was a once in a lifetime opportunity for a Jelly Fight. As Jay said, 'these things only come along once so you should make the most of them'. So he took the kids shopping and came back with about 30 packs of Jelly crystals. I think he cleared out woolies' supply.

That made about four buckets. Meanwhile over at Jimmy's they had been making Jelly, too, so that was the venue. Anyhow so they had a Jelly fight at Jimmy's place. Here are some snaps Cheri took with the underwater camera. Apparently it was all over in about 4 minutes. Looks like fun though.

Emrys (age 8) took these pictures of Jimmy and I on the front deck on Monday. We were cleaning it up in preparation for painting. Which I'm just about to start....

Actually we were eating but we did do a bit of cleaning up occasionally.