Last weekend before winter

It's been cool up here at Larnook today, cool and wet. Yesterday I drove to the university's Coffs Harbour campus for their graduation ceremony in the company of my colleague, Maree. It was a long day but enjoyable - sunny and warm day down there and we had a scrummy lunch at a surf club before heading home. Glen came over last night and brought his friend, Peter, who has cycled up from Sydney and is hoping to get up to Cairns. How impressive, hey. We had met Pete the night before when he joined us for dinner at the 20 000 Cows vegan restaurant and ashram in South Lismore. Last night was lots of fun - too much wine, some spa time, a great meal courtesy of Kyogle farmers' market and a couple of dvds. We even stayed up until after 1.00am.
So this morning we were a little sluggish, though Pete rose at about 7.30 so I took him down and gave him an inspection of our property before breakfast, which was Steve's special pancakes, fruit salad, mascapone cheese topped with a generous drizzle of camp maple syrup. Before the boys left we drove up to Billen Cliffs to show them the community that lives above us (often in the clouds).

Generous to a fault, Glen bought Steve and I these wallaby repellent devices that you attach to your car. When you reach 80kms the air blowing through them produces a sonic wave that is supposed to scare off wallabies within 2kms of your car. I have my doubts but I'm willing to try anything to reduce my wallaby death toll. The car by the way has now been repaired and the kind people at Progers Panel Beaters in Goonellebah even washed the car and cleaned and vacuumed the interior. Lovely stuff.

Oh and you might be interested in our rainfall this month. We recorded 350mm or 14 inches for the month of May.