family gathering

 5.6.2022

Edd continues to recover from his hip replacement. We still have another two weeks before he is legal to drive but he can walk around fine We were managing really well until last Sunday when we had the family visit. Bo’s kids all came and helped clean up and everyone brought food. We had a blue stone hunt for the little kids. Alice, Andrew, Ruby, Pele and Yeshe and CB played her concertina. I was a bit too active and managed to damage my knee enough to find walking very painful this week!  I should have been more careful.

 

Anyway, it was lovely seeing everyone. Yeshe was a bit damaged. He had fallen off his bike and cut his head. The doctor had glued his head together but accidently the glue dripped into his eye. He is OK now but he ended up in the children’s hospital this week to complete the process of glue removal. The other kids were all fine and played happily with Sylkie. 

 

Josh got home in time to join the party. He had been Hiking with a uni friend in Queensland. They had planned to do this on Hinchinbrook Island but the weather was too bad for the ferry to get there.  Qld has had a lot of wet weather recently. It was forecast to be a wet week here too, but it has actually been dry and sunny most days.

 

The goats have finally started coming into season. They are much later than last year for unknown reasons I managed to get Ursula and Olga mated but I am not mating the rest of the herd to cut down on work.  The new point of lay chooks have also started laying, they have taken their time too.  I have more control over the vegetables. The broccoli, cauliflowers and root crops are all growing well. We are still getting strawberries and the occasional zucchini as there are no frosts yet.

 

The news is all about the up coming election. The pandemic is still going on but all restrictions are lifted so we have lost our feeling of safety.  With the horrible war in Ukraine and unpalatable party leaders it is better not to listen to the news right now.