Well here we are nearly knocking on the door of December
with all the joy of
Christmas celebrations waiting for us to enjoy with family and friends.
Again we have the opportunity to say,’ thank you God for Christmas ‘ for the real Christmas, God becoming human and living among us. A wonder and well worthy
of all the songs and stars .
You can see where my head is at present as time seems to
rush by.
I was thinking the other day in retirement I have plenty of
time to do things, on the other hand, the hourglass sands are on the running
out side ,and yet there are so many things yet to do,experience, celebrate and
share.
The pictures that come with this show something of our travel to Maroochydoor.
We saw Tuiana working
hard as
Nanny and was able to enjoy some picnics with the children . Joel came
over for a fortnight and I went back for a couple of weeks in Auckland.
I was well looked after there and Allan took me down to visit our
Great Uncle Jack who shared with us some of
our family history.
It was good to spend time there with Allan and Margaret and
to see Joel at work.
Karen came back, to go on her last Barkly Areo Medical visit
around the Stations as she had taken up another job. She was sad to say goodbye
to those she has been looking after.
Because Karen changes jobs we also had to shift houses, only
2 doors, closer to Robert but quite an effort in the very hot sun, smaller
house with no view, but the house is ok.
I was still in N ew Zealand so they tell me I have a debt to the shifters
still.
Karen is now the CQI facilitator for the Barkly Region,
based at Anyinginyi Aboriginal Corporation, she had the responsibility of
Anyinginyi and 5 Department of health clinics
, so she will still have some travel out to remote areas.
The job is about best practice and quality audits, at
present she is working on the accreditation
for the Anyinginyi Health centre, so lots of
meeting s . Karen has been to Darwin for training for a week and looking at
going to Alice springs next week to work with another CQI Facilitator.
I have been enjoying making some wooden toys of late wooden
puppets that dance when I play the Ukulele and am selling them at markets here.
I call them the hand carved original Blain
St Dancers .
I have been making Incredibly Secret Hooey Sticks!!
We head home on the
22nd Dec joining Wrighty’s Marae for Christmas
Arohanui
Ian and Karen
