Car camping at Bents Basin

What a glorious place to camp with the most enormous waterhole I've ever seen. There was a rapid emptying into it at one end and we swam there and had great fun trying to swim up it.  A perfect weekend.

Gavin cooking sausages. An institution !

Walk to Eagle Rock with a swim on the way

 A lovely walk along part of the Coastal Track in the Royal National Park with Srini and Gavin. We stopped for a wonderful swim at a waterfall and ended up at Eagle Rock which always creates great photographs.

Full moon swim at Bronte

 We watched the full moon rise and then had a gorgeous swim in the tidal pool. Such a wonderful night.

Swim at Bronte

 A glorious swim at Bronte, followed by a meal at a Brazilian restaurant.

Stroll in Glebe with Srini, Tanya and Gavin, followed by dinner

A stroll in Glebe where we got to see the new Fish Market being built to replace the other one. It's going to be enormous!  Then we went to an "all you can eat" Indian buffet. 

Celebrating Gavin's 7 day fast with only water

Gavin was still on a high from his fast and I must say he looks pretty good for someone who didn't eat for so long. We visited the Glebe market after a lovely lunch at a local cafe.

Gavin's amazing course: Write a book to change the world

Gavin has created so many amazing courses on Upschool but the one that has captured my imagination the most is his "Write a book" course where he teaches kids to create a book using Canva. He organised with Canva, the great online design site that Jo loves so much, to give away free Canva subscriptions to every Upschool student. So many sublime, creative books have been created by children throughout the world, available to be viewed and ordered via the Upschool Library . The course has been so successful that Canva even made a very generous offer to buy Upschool! 

 

Playing tennis at twilight

So much fun.  I feel very grateful to Rajesh for buying a flat with a tennis court. There is also a pool currently being renovated. Imagine what it will be like to take a refreshing dip after our game. Heaven!

The famous annual G&T Xmas Party

Always an absolute blast with lots to eat.  I love it all except the Secret Santa game at the end. With Gavin's highly suspect rules, the game goes on for ever and you always, always have your preferred gift stolen, thus destroying all remnants of festive cheer!!  No, only joking. It's part of the annual tradition and wouldn't be the same without it.