Watched this very moving sad film yesterday..

Something called Rabbit Proof Fence..



It's a true story from some 60 odd years ago of 3 young aboriginal children that were forcibly separated from their mothers by the state, in a barbaric attempt (that only ended in 1970!) to somehow eradicate the aborignal race, through interbreeding them with white people..

The girls are taken over 1500 kms from their homeland, where they are then imprisoned with a whole bunch of other kids suffering the same fate..

Through bush survival skills, these 3 girls escape the home they are forced to live in, and miraculously (2 of them) find their way back to their mother..

It's an incredibly sad movie that had me crying through the most of it, and even now, just thinking of it, the tears are welling up again..

I find human behaviour often extremely incomprehensible..

peace,
mango.

Last Tuesday (20th October), for the first time this season, I went for a swim in the sea..

As usual, for the time of year, the sea was a little cold, but nevertheless, still very refreshing..



Kveta was visiting a friend on that day, so the following day, we set out together to another local beach, and kveta had her first swim of the season too..

It's great to get back to beach life, and warmer weather, and hopefully we'll get a few more such days in before we finally up and leave our home here..

yes.. we are still making slow but sure headway toward leaving here, and setting forth northbound to the tropics..

tentatively we are currently thinking around the 10th of december, so we'll be there before the silly season starts..

giant butterfly outside our door

Meanwhile, still that ongoing sifting through things and, often reluctantly, ridding ourselves of material things which we could likely later make us of, but there's really just no simple practical way to relocate stuff to our new home.. especially considering that we don't fully know where we will settle yet..

a lot of unknown ahead of us, and a good exercise in faith.. We will basically be homeless for a while..

We reckon it will take us roughly one week to drive to the area we wish to settle (somewhere inland from cairns).. And a clearly unknown time before we find a place to call home..

Wish us luck!
peace,
mango.

It's drizzling outside, and I just checked the weekly weather forecast for Sydney. Here's what the next few days are predicted to look like:


Wet and unusually cold for the time of year..

But after weeks of dry weather, the garden is surely rejoicing.. We're not really gardening much at all recently, seems like little point as we are counting down the weeks to leave, and no doubt once we have gone, the councel or whoever takes over our little one bedroomed flat, will likely transform what we have anyhow.

When we do garden, we like to do so in a random sort of way, encouraging the biodiversity that such methods support.. Also, we are big fans of mulch, so watering is rarely necessary at all. (besides, all our compost gets buried in small shallow holes, effectively watering the garden from under the ground, as our food/fruit scraps are still very much full ofliquid when buried).


Having fun with digital images.. (click to enlarge)
It seems well likely that we may still be in Sydney in December, but rest assured, we have seen our last winter here, and this coming summer will be our last one too.

Little else to report.

Progress is being made.

hugs,
Mango.