High schoolers are all at boarding school, or home schooled and we never see them. The younger people are all working and have their own commitments. The older people have got too old or have died.

I went to see the job agency people this morning, and they are tackling it right now, thank heavens for that. I've found my rain gauge, and I've found the garden bed, I rediscovered the old hoses I left stretched thru the yard.

We currently have TC Esther crossing the coast, as I type, just SW of Mornington Island. So Queensland does get at least one TC this year, if only momentary.