Here I am sitting down for Dinner. Gel has cooked a great pumpkin soup, Em is trying to inveigle us into playing "Dangerous Boys". I'm rudely uploading photos....

Some pics of Em, Jimmy, a crab, Nicole, Emma and me at Macauleys from Monday. Some more of Gel, Jay and The Bike. Oh and a classic shot of Ev laying in the sun with teabags on his eyes... !? It's a tough life for some hey?

And here they are.

Well after a patch of lifeless cold dull weather the sun came out and shone for the Chilli Festival. It was awfully decent of it. Cheri, Em and I took the bicycles down to the village and weaved around amongst the truly insane traffic. Maybe next year we should try to organise some kind of public transport to encourage people to leave their cars at home.

This morning I picked up a fellow hitching out of Sawtell. As we crossed the railway line into neighbouring Toormina he told me of the gang fights he used to get involved in when he was a young lad in the 70s.

"We'd light bonfires up on the headland and could see the Toormy lot burning fires over in the scrub."
Indicating with a nod of his head, off towards Minorie Drive.
"...used to have some great punch ups with the [Toormy] gangs and when the Coffs lot came over we'd join up with Toormy and the blackfellas and bash the hell out of them"
He looked a little wistful as we drove down the Link road,
"...there was punks and all sorts, Sawtell is way better than Toormina"

He was nice fella, it's worth picking up hitchers especially when they tell a good story.

:)

Today was my first day as a househusband. I cleaned the loo and swept the floor. You'd all have been proud of me.

I also went out and bought doughnuts with Em. We dropped the sailing dinghy's rudder off with Cameron of 'Camesco Aluminium Fabricators'. He is going to weld a tiller handle onto it, hopefully before the weekend.

At home I tinkered with my websites a while, then put a couple of Red Morwongs (fish) in the oven. Whilst they roasted the boys and I headed off for a quick snorkel/surf down by the island.

Check out the video Em and I made...

I just walked home in the rain. My little laptop got wet but I've left it to drain so hopefully it'll be OK. The boys were scooting around the yard in their swimmers with the surfboard when I got home. The rain was really hammering. Then the road started to turn into a river and our neighbours house looks like it started to flood.

I took a few shots with the camera follow the link to you tube and check it out.