Superman writes.....

I have a new friend – Muz – he is Murray’s friend too and he is a gorilla who came from Bali. Murray calls us ‘his boys’ and he takes us out and sits us down to watch him make the fire to cook the bread. One morning we spent all day with Murray – we watched him gather the firewood, chop it with his new axe, light the fire, knead the bread – we had to wait very patiently – in fact we fell asleep waiting. Murray had a cigar while he waited for the bread to rise, then he banged it on the table and finally he put the bread into a cast iron pot with a lid called a camp oven.

By this time the fire had died down and was a grey/white colour. Murray spread these ashes out and put the oven on top and placed some ashes on the lid of the oven. Brenda put some potatoes and kumura in the ashes. After 40 minutes Murray took the camp oven off and WOW we had golden brown bread and charcoaled potatoes and kumura to eat. YUMMY!

Muz and I were very lucky – we were allowed to climb the Gloucester Tree. This tree is 58 metres tall and was used as a ‘fire lookout’ up to the 1970’s. There are spikes nailed into the tree in a spiral and at the top is a cabin. We all tried to get to the top…..

I have been too busy to read…..