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One beautiful December evening Pedro and his girlfriend Rosita were sitting by the side of the ocean.
 
It was a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, “Hey, mamacita, let’s do Weeweechu.”

“Oh no, not now, let’s look at the moon!” said Rosita.

“Oh, c’mon baby, let’s you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it’s the perfect time,” Pedro begged.

“But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon.” replied Rosita.

“Please, mi amor, just once, do Weeweechu with me.” 

Rosita looked at Pedro and said, “OK, one time, we’ll do Weeweechu.”

Pedro grabbed his guitar and they both sang…..

“Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!”

Last Tuesday (18th) The Kid’s school had their annual Christmas pageant. The whole school was involved; The Kid got to take part in a few of the songs.

They also had the year 6 graduation ceremony and they handed out half a dozen scholarships to outstanding year 6 students.

It’s taken a few days, but I’ve finally managed to go through the photos I took. There’s a gallery up on SmugMug.

While I was driving home yesterday I went through some of the most torrential rain I’ve ever had to drive in.

On the road between Elphinstone and Castlemaine (through Chewton, etc) there was tree debris all over the road and it was raining so hard I could barely see. I had the Falcon wipers on full and as soon as the wiper moved the windscreen was covered in water again. I would have pulled over except I knew there was a truck somewhere just behind me, but I had no idea where. Visibility really was absolutely dreadful. It cleared up a little once I got into Castlemaine itself, and the drive over the Moolort plains was just fine.

Once I got into Maryborough it was clear just how much water we’d got. There were huge puddles everywhere. Pulling into our court I saw Lisa’s car was at Peter & Diane’s — just in front of the SES car. I figured this couldn’t be good.

When I pulled into the driveway Peter and Lisa were bucketing water out of the bungalow. It turns out that the dam next door had overflowed in the rain and most of that runoff had gone through the bungalow. At one point it was under 2 feet of water. Everything on the floor was soaking wet.

I took over from Lisa because she’d spent 2 hours cleaning up, and by the time Peter and knocked off it was 9:30pm. Even then the floor was still damp, and of course nothing that got wet has dried out yet. We got more rain this morning, but nothing like the downpour yesterday afternoon.

The Kids had been left at Lisa’s parents while the mop-up was going on, so I ducked over there to take some baby formula over for the little one. The big one decided to come back with me and spent a few hours trying not to get in the way.

While she was there she found half a dozen yabbies wandering around the driveway. They all got dropped in the dam. I suspect they had been washed out of next door’s dam when it overflowed.

We had planned to phone Grandma Elli to wish her a happy birthday once I got home, but the evening disappeared really quickly. Lisa and The Kid had got a present for Grandma too, but when I left home very early Thursday morning I couldn’t find it anywhere, so I didn’t get to take it down! We’ll phone Grandma some time this morning to wish her a happy birthday (and I’ll apologise for not taking her present down).