E-BLAST - SUN 30 May

Bottom left  -  Crediton  -   follow the yellow marked road to Eungella  -  60 min to Mackay
My father Seymour pioneered Crediton (Dairy) - 1938 selection Lot 30 - cleared the land - bought 'a shop' building in Sarina and trucked it to Crediton up the Eungella range. It was the first house in the district to have a septic. When Darwin was bombed in WWII the men of Crediton signed up. The USAF base in Mackay required the farmers with milking cows to return to their dairy farms and provide their morning milk to the USAF air base and the afternoon milk to Mackay. 

Seymour went on a working holiday in 1946 (his sister and husband looked after the farm) and in Batlow met Joan Wynn (Land Army) - married in Sydney Easter 1947. She had never seen the farm and after the honeymoon was a little taken aback to find a TEA advert on the side of the house. At the tin-kettling to welcome to new bride, the women were focused on the septic - within six months every farm house had a septic. My brother Kim born in 1948, Mark 1951 and Susette 1953. 

We have taken our children too see Crediton and Eungella (where tourists see the Platypus). Crediton is an hour's drive to Mackay and an hour's drive north to Laguna Quays Respite. My mum said 60 minutes to the doctor - same today.  Wes took his bride Madeline to Crediton, Anthea and her family are visiting Crediton early July.
 

E-BLAST - SUN 23 MAY

 Knee surgery in 12 months - left knee then the right. This photo was taken in 1971 Mark winning the Qld triple jump - photo - Courier Mail. Anyone who does triple jumping seriously ends up with knee issues. The surgeon said both knees have bad arthritis from the x-rays with the tissue gone between the knee bones.
Meanwhile Delma has a very painful left foot from her existing foot issues for which Delma does daily exercises several times a day and night. Delma is intending to ask the medical people for a needle for the pain.
Delma loves gardening. But to help in this, MyAgedCare put us onto Brett a gardener on their books. to help in situations such as Delma. He comes once a month to trim as required with his power gardening saws.

E-BLAST - SUN 16 MAY

Aqua and Taneesha (in our church) put up a dry stone wall - back of Timeout in the Tweed. 15 yrs cut drain worked well but a few weeks back we had a massive wet and drain overflowed, down our yard into our house. Glen, owns the 8 acres approved. Aqua is a stone mason.  

 

E-BLAST - SUN 9 MAY

'Bright Future' Mark's art work for auction at the -  Red Shield Appeal - Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Tuesday 11 May. Mark does an art work for the Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce breakfast 'business card draw'. Each year - the May monthly breakfast is taken over by the Salvation Army for its annual Red Shield Appeal. The business card draw is put aside. The Salvation Army asked my monthly painting be put up for auction to raise additional funding for the Red Shield Appeal. The idea behind 'Bright Future' refers to the ministry of the Salvos offering those they serve a bright future.