Thankyou for the garden

Thankyou to the wonderful people who lived in this shack before me.

Thankyou for the beautiful flowers

and for the fresh food.

I hope the people living in my old house are enjoying the gardens we left behind for them as much as I'm enjoying this garden.

From Rainbow to Rainbow

We just got home from the Australian National Rainbow Gathering in Queensland and now we are back at the Rainbow Temple.

We had a beautiful time.



The kids loved this slack rope someone had put up in a tree.




Rain on the rope





Tipi in the morning mist




the family





Full moon face painting



me at full moon, call me moon face!



main circle




and of course...a rainbow



Love Shack

We have been lucky to find a little shack to move into next door to the Rainbow Temple. Rental houses seem hard to come by around here so it's good to have somewhere to stay while we are looking around for a bigger house.

the kitchen

It is very basic accomodation. We have solar power to run a couple of lights and a power point. And there is no hot water on tap which means heating water for washing. We have to share a bathroom and toilet but it is private here and came with a ready made vegie garden. And the garden is the main thing I've been missing since leaving the farm. 

And it has a roof that keeps the rain out and there seems to be an abundance of rain around here!

long view of a really long and narrow house

These pics are from when the shack was empty. I post some more once I get it looking homely.

the bedroom

The great thing is too that there are four other dwellings here so there are lots of nice neighbours and we are only 50 meters walk from the Rainbow Temple so the kids can still play with the kids staying there and we can all walk down in the evenings to lisien to the music and sit around the fire.

view of the garden out the window

Rain, Tui and Tama sitting on the verandah

Rainbow Country

Our first week away from our old home has been fun. We are staying at the Rainbow Temple near Byron Bay. There are so many lovely people who live here and pass through here all the time. The kids are enjoying meeting all the travellers from around the world. 

Our room at the Temple

Rain and Mr T have been hanging around on the trapeze and we've all been practicing devil sticks and pois and fire twirling everyday. And the kids have been learning to speak smatterings of other languages.

There are some wonderful musicians here and I love sitting by the fire in the evening listening to the singing and guitars and drums.

On the weekend we went to The Channon markets. The kids made a really cool candle.

Mr T ran around with awhole heap of other kids.

And Tui had her face painted.

Can't wait til next week :)

Rainbow Country

I have just got back from a couple of days away with the kids. We went down to NSW and stayed just inland from Byron Bay. We spent a couple of nights at the Rainbow Temple, an amazing place built by an amazing man. It is built in the middle of the rain forest and is such a beautiful peaceful place to be.

I love how the trees are growing up through the various buildings.

While we were down there we caught up with some friends and hung out with some other unschooling families.

Feeling very relaxed after a few days away.