The weather is certainly interfering with our holiday plans. It seems unlikely now that we will go camping at Kangaroo Valley, unless a serious turnaround occurs. Despite the most unusual appearance of the sun this afternoon, we will be in for a summer of coolness and rain. That's the prediction. Nadia and Elaine don't seem keen either, the one being sick and the other injured.

I don't blame anyone for not wanting to sleep in a giant nylon sleeve on soggy turf. Nor having their aquatic activities, of which there are a plenitude at KV, curtailed by poor weather. So we are focussed on Christmas, now only two days away, and the other kinds of things we might do during the end of year break.

Almost all of our Christmas shopping, save vegetables, is done, though very few pressies are wrapped. Not a chore I look forward to.

But I'll try.