Another consignment of STUFF

One tennis court sized, antique Chinese bed plus enough crockery to host a wedding plus boxes of pictures and ornaments and stuff delivered by sampan  and now ensconced in our little kingdom.    As an added bonus the papaya trees were bulging with huge juicy fruits.  Must have been 40 kilos of fruit

Arthur impersonates Ray Clemence

Happy birthday Arthur.

 That's a mighty fine pair of oven mitts!

Kingfisher fishing

Matthew and me made a detour around the river Silver estuary and were rewarded with watching a brilliantly coloured male kingfisher snatch a fish from the river.  Here comes springtime.    We waited to see if he would return again but he had disappeared over the wall to the Yuen ancestral home.    Instead a rather moody looking grey heron cruised onto the scene and was just about to land when it saw us and flew off further down stream but not without a good screech, which presumably was directed at us having spoiled his fishing spot.

Japanese White Eye

Matthew and I found this poor little Japanese White Eye this morning.    Not sure what happened to him but it seems today was not his day.  

School Sports day

Matthew hits the podium for the sixty metre sprint.   He wins his heat but is just beaten by Elijah, his best buddy and arch rival too.   Well done boys.