The moment we have been waiting for. The kids have growen up and want to get married in the front yard.

My welfare was their concern.

Noel And Robyn from Edward Lodge.
A beautifull place to stay in New Farm Brisbane

Rhett and Taijla are the Big Star Circus. They do everything including Lyra and Acro unicycling.

That's Emily with the makeup

Today was all about performance.
Thanks Lucca. I live in NewZealand.

They parked their cars in my garage.

They milled around.









Wild dogs filled the yard.









What could I give them?

Catastrophe threatened to destroy their community.

The wind changed course and the house survived save for a couple of broken windows.

It turned out it was all about what they could give me.

Essential services were restored and the post got through.

Consider this. In South Western Australia the oldest footprint of man was recorded in 2005. It was around 20 000 years old and had belonged to a man estimated to have been two metres tall and running at twenty kilometres an hour.

The tracks were surrounded by other tracks. Likely the same community.Children and adults all walking in the same direction across a shallow clay basin.

So suddenly into our house step the real realities of our modern history. Young and happily naive to the past.

There is an urgency to make sense of it all and unscramble our selves.
This Little house is very similar to a house the locals call with anthropomorphic affection 'The Queenslander' It sits traditionally high on stilts above the earth keeping it dry and cool. It has lived a relatively short time in the scheme of things, beginning it's life around the 1840s. Going into mass production in the1920s. Bowled considerably for development around the 1980s and more widely protected in the 2000s.

Welcome to Brisbane. This lizard obviously a well read reptile resides at the state library and is often seen taking in the heat along the banks of the Brisbane river. I gave it a wide berth and snapped the photo ultra macro. Never the less it eyed me, nodded and posed in an aloof but considered stance before going back to its book. Wildlife aye?

The Powerkidz festival is in and around the impressive Power House theatre in Brisbane and delivers a full on captive audience to the house. They surrounded the house in throngs with intense questioning and comments this one was so involved at one point she mistook it for another well known house and started tucking in to the furnishings. Her mother spent some time extracting the curtains from those hungry gums.

As much as I was bowled over by the exuberance of the kids, these quiet moments with these chilled folks was great. I am going to spend the evening taking in my first day in the house and let the heat of the day slowly dissipate before my morning languish on the banks of the Brisbane river.

Signing off from the,

Bearded Dragon.