Saturday 25^th February

This was, I think, the hottest day in Australia – it reached 40 around midday… There were a few bushfires close to town but these were swiftly dealt with but here is still a big fire blazing in the Derwent Valley.

2XS has reached Ulladulla.  I spoke to Pete and Steve, who were happily ensconced in the Ulladulla Bowls Club – they know how to live it up!  They were having: roast pork followed by pavlova, plus a few glasses of wine.  (Meanwhile back in Hobart Katy, Jeff and I sat around and ate leftovers from our lunchtime BBQ with a few glasses of wine and a few episodes of Spirited.  We know how to live it up here too!!)

When we were with Pete and Leanne, from Plan Four, Pete told us a nice story – possibly an apocryphal tale - from Fiji:

A keen entrepreneurial tourist approached a peaceful looking man who was sitting in the shade of a palm tree on a beautiful beach.  He was weaving big sun hats, and selling them with moderate success to passers-by.  The entrepreneur said, “Why don’t you employ a few people to make these hats for you?  You could sell a lot more.”  The hatmaker looked at him in bewilderment and said, “Why would I want to do that?”  “Well,” was the enthusiastic reply, “You could make a lot more money, and eventually you would make enough to be able to retire…and sit under a palm tree on the beach…”