We spent quite a number of weeks living in our caravan at Craigs Caravan Park, prior to finding a home. We would like to thank Angela, Peter, Nathan and Dylan for their hospitality and friendship during this time, because we had no acquaintances in Tenterfield, we were flying blind. Thank you.

Thanks also to Ben Johnston of Ray White Realestate fame, for his patience, professionalism and general assistance in finding our new home.

We are now looking forward to becoming part of your precious community and sharing your beaut lifestyle.

While most of us, sitting in our air-conditioned (or even fan-cooled) homes and work-places complain about the present horrendous heat, let us spare a thought for all the Firemen - volunteer or paid - working the field, endeavouring, and mostly succeeding, in keeping us safe. 

A huge THUMBS UP to you all, you lovely people.  Bless them all.

A HUGE thank you.

The decision of the American judge to override President Trump’s immigration ban on the grounds that it contravenes their Constitutional discrimination between different religions. The Judge was grasping at straws to come up with that reasoning.

It’s a worry that a similar trend is a-foot in Australia. Like America, we are doing plea bargains with criminals for a lesser charge.

This keeps the criminal system moving and the lawyers are making heaps of money by the many cases they are able to process. It isn’t true justice at all.

This system was used to get rid of the “inconvenient” Senator Rod Culleton, who dared to suggest a Royal Commission into the justice system.

Is justice in America and Australia being stymied by a kangaroo court system?

Another example of justice gone west was the jailing of Senator Hanson in the 1990s, but that was quickly rectified when public opinion swung against her persecutors and the conviction was squashed. But not until she spent three months in the slammer.

No doubt an unforgettable experience for the current Senator.

Locked-in syndrome is where a patient has mental awareness but, due to nervous system disease, is physically paralysed from the eyelids down. In some cases the eyelids don’t work either.

By using non-invasive computer interface technology, which detects changes of oxygen levels in brain tissue, even the worst cases can now be communicated with…including asking them whether they are happy. Interestingly, most of them say they are happy with their lives.

We might have expected them to be very frustrated. But they aren’t.

It makes you ask yourself what “happy” really means.

Apparently it doesn’t necessarily mean getting everything you want. Or fulfilling yourself by “following your dreams” etc.

Locked-in patients can stay happy by adapting themselves – not to their dreams – but to reality here and now. It’s what you might call accepting God’s will.

We aren’t going to understand God, but we can learn to trust him...