When you least expect it

While on our extensive holidays ( sorry for the lack of posting ). We happened across an amazing park for disabled children, in the one of the most unlikely of places. Mossman, about 90 KM north of Cairns, with less than 2000 people. Some of the equipment i have not seen the like of anywhere. I will do my research and find out who manufactured it, because i could not find a made by stamp or sticker anywhere on the equipment.

What caught our eye, and to the biggest delight of Harri, was the flying fox. But it also had a round-about, conventional swing and cargo swing. Please enjoy the photos. I will be doing my best to have some of this equipment installed at some parks in Brisbane.

Regards for now Matt

computer operator problems

Hello All, We have been having a wounderfull holiday and taking lots of photos, but for much of it i have been unable to work out the connection configuration for the windows laptop. Having an Apple computer at home. Also i have been having trouble uploading photos to the laptop. I am sure it has more to do with the operator than the computer. But i promise to do a big post with photos on our arrival home in a week or so. regards Matt

Very busy bees

We have been very busy bees of late, and i apologies again for the lack of regular posts.

What has been happening in Harri life since my last post, well the main thing has been 16 individual hyperbaric oxygen treatments. The Hyperbarics Works have moved to indooroopilly, so this has been an all day event, most days, with some christmas shopping in between. I have been still working 3 nights as referee for touch football. Also we have finalised plan for our mystery tour, which starts on December 21st.

By coincidence this is also the date for the first lunar eclipse for east coast Australia in some years, so we are hoping for clear skies. The eclipse will have started just after sunset and progress as the night falls. The moon should do its amazing change colour and go dark ect. It will happen at a time of night that the children can see it all take place.

I am taking Harri's laptop with us so as the holiday progresses i should be able to provide updates.

Cheers for now Matt

Apologies for my lack of posts

Firstly and foremost i must apologies for my lack of posts this month. We have been in Sydney for our ABR review, which stretched over the first part of the weekend 13th Nov. The Sunday we ( Harri and me ) were treated to a surprise, the family, minus Jae, went to a midday to 8pm  open air concert at Sirromet winery. The line up included but not limited to Jimmy Barnes, Vanessa Amerosi, Johnny Diesel & Mark Sermore. It is becoming the in way to attend a concert. It is called " A day on the green ".
Well there goes that weekend. I have been busy getting my venue ready for Premier Touch grandfinals. and my other venues just starting their City Touch summer season. There goes the week days and nights. School music concerts, sports break ups and exams have kept the kids busy. Work has kept Kim busy. Last weekend was another blink and you miss it, weekend.
We ( Kim and I ) have also in our spare time been researching, organising and booking a mystery holiday for the christmas holidays. A Mystery, because we will not be telling the boys where we are going. At the moment the people at our destination, do not yet know much of our plans, but we will be contacting them over the next week, as we will make the last bookings this week.

Regards for now Matt

prepairing for next clinic

Harri and I will leave this Friday for the ABR clinic is Sydney. Hope to have a good report for you all on our return.

I was away last weekend at a family wedding in Cairns, while Harri spent the weekend with his mother and brothers. I was difficult for me to be away from Harri and not his carer, I felt at times, that I was out of place. It was made all the more difficult because, Harri has had some difficulty breathing in a couple of incidents. The doctors are not sure what is causing it and are at a loss to recommend a treatment. It may be a result of his recently discovered condition, tracheomalacia or a complicated change in seizure. At the moment we need to just watch him more closely.

Regards for now Matt

Perfect conditions for camping

We had perfect conditions for camping. Helping out at the farm and generally relaxing. I have attached some photos for you to enjoy. Some of the things we did not get on photo were, dad ( me ) cracking a whip, which was used to round up the cattle into the stock yard. The search party ( Jae, Matt jnr and me ) looking for Bailey and Kim, who were gone a long time on a walk to the near by bluff. The search party did not find them because they came walking up the road to the farm from the other direction ( they had taken the long way back ).

Fixing a fence broken in a recent flash flood.

spraying cattle for parasites.

under the watchful eye of our supervisor ( Harri )

and finally a spot of fishing in the near by, Mary river.

Cheers for now, Matt

Packing up and going camping

We are getting all set to pack up the boys and go camping at the farm this weekend. The weather is warming up nicely. I hope to have some good photos to share when we get back.

I was looking at the counter for the blog and the traffic is slowly increasing, so thank you to all our followers out there. We are averaging about 5 visitors a day, with 3 of those being return visitors. Thank you again, and don't forget to forward a link to people you think might be interested.

Regards Matt