Bunyip its really not even the amount of rain rather then the amount of wet days and persistant showers that bug me and keep everything so wet, mouldy and muddy...Have you lived up here all your life.?...I first came up 35 years ago and just the past couple of years am getting a bit sick of it..

Although we had a heavy shower earlier in the week which somehow ended up coming through the ceiling in the back room and has destroyed my ceiling plastering...I have had issues here and there ever since having the roof replaced after Yasi...it was my first time dealing with insurance and builders as originally I built a shed which I converted into a liveable shack (with no leaks)..

Anyway a light shower here this morning but the week ahead looks pretty nice with some good fishing or beach weather..

I saw this article and felt her pain....7 days in hospital..!..she must have really got right in there...

Has anyone else experienced stings from the Gympie...?....I have had 4-5 encounters..mostly just walking into or brushing leaves on arms, legs and back of hand..thankfully not a full body experience like this woman but enough one time to have to visit an old local pharmacist who gave me a bottle of chloroform/ether which he advised would help to dissolve the stinging hairs to some degree...as we know the pain persists for sooo loong though and basically every time you sweat or get wet its starts stinging again..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11893147/Gympie-Gympie-plant-aftermath-Mum-fell-Cairns-painful-struggle-suicide-stingers.html?ico=related-replace