October  2026

Less than one hundred days to Christmas the advert tells me.

We've had a relatively quiet September but other family members have been getting around. Steve was the biggest surprise in making an unexpected trip back to Aust because his passport was near its expiry date and here is the quickest place to renew it and things can go wrong  in the process so he allowed a month before his return flight. In this case he placed paperwork early in the morning and had a call late afternoon, same day, that his new passport was available. Amazing.

Steve is staying at Elanora and we are confined to Oak Tree to meet various pre-arranged appointments. He did manage to drive up for an overnight stay however so we could see him in person.

Great-grandies have been on school holidays and Jess did take them all to Burrum for a few days again while Nick and Catie had a few days in Sydney.

There are still sixteen villas to be finished here at Oak Tree in the new area and currently 10  available for sale. Nine have already been sold or at least have deposits paid on them and five of them are already occupied so our compact village is expanding for better or for worse.

The annual argument about Daylight Saving has begun again. Most of the population of Queensland lives in the south-east corner and the major reason given seems to be for ease of communication with the southern states if Queensland were to put the clock forward one hour also. They don't consider what effect such action has on the extensive areas of the state away from the coast and closer to the equator where the sun has greatest effect.

 Not enough publicity is given to the great variety of times across the country when the sun actually rises and sets, and it now sets on this edition.

Cheers,

Merv