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CAMPING AT BIG DAM (CREATIVE NAME!!) One weekend during ‘isolation’ we headed out to Big Dam.  This is about 10 minutes or so out of the community.  It is a place we often take the kids on ‘trips to country’.  Another teacher couple and Jeff and I headed out for one night of camping and solitude !!!!!. The sun sets on a lovely day of chatting, eating and swimming.  The leeches put a sudden end to the wish to be cool! Yes, there were leeches in here, but I didn’t wait around too long to see if they preferred my blood to Jeff’s. Rusty lovingly looks up at Jeff while we wait for some coals to cook our tea.  No kangaroo tails in sight at this cook up!!!  We did try to make damper but it was an epic fail….. It was a beautiful starry night and we were lucky to be sharing our camping adventure with an expert photographer.  He was able to get the night sky with time lapse which also captured a plane i...

ISOLATION ACTIVITIES, BALGO STYLE One of the quietest students in my classroom!!!  Rusty has been coming over to school with me.  It's a cool place for him to sit and good company for me. Rusty even comes to the Staff Work Room where the photocopier is.  He is happy anywhere providing there is an air conditioner. I started with a puzzle on day 1 of our enforced 'holiday'.  School was cancelled two and a half weeks before the holidays.  Catholic Education made the decision both because of the continuing violence in the community and the Corona Virus. I took 3 days to complete this puzzle....bring on the next one. Well....now is the time to learn a new skill while I have some time.  One of our teachers offered guitar lessons for us.  I certainly took this up and am enjoying learning.  I can even make a nice sound out of it now!!! AROUND HOME This little fellow sits on our kitchen window e...