Monday
The family gathered around the breakfast table and another fried breakfast was ably delivered by Leigh. After breakfast there was quite a lot of chat and coffee as all families do before they go their separate ways.
The tour director and Pam went to the local market in Bright which looked similar to many a European market. I wasn't all that bothered about going so spent the morning talking and acting as a taxi service.
As soon as Rosemarie and Pam returned Leigh and Sue Ellen and family left to return to Melbourne and then there were six. Basically the whole day was spent on the verandah chatting. Paul cooked sausages fro lunch and in the evening we had a Chinese takeaway.
The highlight of the day was the discovery of a brush tailed possum in the shed which had a baby on its back. It certainly didn't appreciate being introduced to me and looked positively scared.
The weather was indifferent with heavy rain showers and so it seemed best just to stay at home and chat.
The outdoor life is great people can hardly believe we only had one barbecue all summer or that our summer was so wet and miserable. Conversation is a means of education and here it covered drink driving, politics, The Melbourne Cup, education and VAT. I think the British Council realised this a long time ago and has been encouraging students to participate for as long as I remember.