Saturday 21st – Friday 27th

Saturday 21st

• Hugh and Dan: made vegan cheesecakes for Solstice party (without supervision – this is now their job for WotY celebrations)

Sunday 22nd – Solstice

• Hugh and Dan: went through steampunk hamper present and divided up the various items between themselves
• Hugh: helped set up gazebos etc for Solstice party; made fruit punch; helped set up and serve snacks, food etc
• family: BBQ with friends, ceremony at the hawthorn tree, fire pit with marshmallows
• Hugh: hung out with Philip
• Dan: hung out with Sage and Amelia

Wednesday 25th – Christmas

• family: quiet day at home

26th – Boxing Day

• Hugh and Dan: went up to town with Eric
• Hugh: bought new headphones with his Christmas money
• Dan: went busking (made heaps!)
• Hugh: had to jump through multiple hoops to get his headphones actually connected to his computer but fortunately Eric had the necessary parts

28th

• family: D&D campaign – we unexpectedly destroyed the Big Bad with several rooms unexplored so that was the end of this campaign! Hugh is still working on world building our steampunk one (with Dan’s help)

Saturday 28th – Friday 3rd

Monday 30th

• family: high fire danger day + smoke haze from Mangana fire and false alarm of a fire on Arve Rd meant we enacted the first steps of our bushfire plan and got ready to evacuate – the kids already have their backpacks packed but we collected toiletries, valuables, camping gear etc and packed the car before we found out it had been a false alarm after all – need to refine that evacuation plan a bit more!

Tuesday 31st – New Year’s Eve

• Hugh: went to Dayle and Hamm’s NYE party/Chrissy’s birthday party at CFB Rec Ground, talked D&D with Alex for most of the evening

Wednesday 1st – New Year’s Day

• Dan: bussed up to Hobart, had a picnic with Sage and Amelia

Friday 3rd

• Hugh: needed to earn some money to buy an extenion to D&D Beyond, so after negotiation, cleaned the bathroom ceiling
• Hugh: bought an extension to D&D Beyond which allows him to include homebrew content

Saturday 4th – Friday 10th

Saturday 4th

• Dan and Hugh: created Dan’s character Miss Victoria for Hugh’s new steampunk D&D world

Sunday 5th

• family: woke up to a blackout, cooked breakfast on the woodstove before it came back on
• family: started planning for our first steampunk event: SteamFest in Georgetown in March
• Dan: made wedges for dinner

Monday 6th

• Dan: took bus into Hobart and went busking
• Hugh: helped with BotVC/pantry stockpile menu plan

Tuesday 7th

• Hugh: worked out an itinerary for Sunday before camp; decided to go up early and do some touristy things in the afternoon

Wednesday 8th

Thursday 9th

• Hugh: told him about the Ballawinne Festival in Cygnet on the 13th; he doesn’t particularly want to go but we might insist that he leave his room and have some cultural experiences
• Dan: walked down to Geeveston and went to op shop; bought two dolls to refashion into steampunk dolls

Friday 10th

• Hugh: did research into airsoft guns, gel pistols, various forms of live action laser tag etc in Hobart (check exact details)
• Dan: worked out an itinerary for Sunday before camp; booked tickets for me and Dan to go to an art installation in Launceston for MONA FOMA
• Dan: started looking at Cygnet Folk Festival program for Saturday
• Dan: took bus up to town, went busking, went to 5pm climate rally, bus home