I've been having trouble with bigpond (Internet service provider, part of Telstra, the company most Australians seem to love to hate, with good reason), which has had me offline. This is a company to avoid. Anyway we had - despite the rain and wind, a great barbi up at Norman's place, and we went out with him on his new little red 4x4 thing that is not a quad in the night (you can -if you're skinny and prepared to be very close friends) sit three on the front seat. It went through places where even a quad was doomed - it's boggy at the moment. Counted 19 wombats, and very few wallaby. Paddy spotted a whole flock of woollaby though!