Fireworks went off in one of the back yards near the church.
Cara and Stoz ran screaming into the Geography Room (the main room, which has a huge map of the world on one wall). They'd found Stubert with duct tape over his mouth and his hands tied. He had no pulse. There was a blood-stained note, demanding that a block of chocolate be left under Hugh's car, or another puppet would be brutally murdered. Cara, Stoz and Cort Nii buried Stubert under a tablecloth.
Andrea told everyone to go to bed.

This morning, during breakfast, Trav, Andrea, Cort Nii and I did a citizens arrest on Cara and Stoz because we believed they killed Stubert. However, they were tried and found innocent. Some have suggested that this outcome was due to corruption in the police force.
We had Bible study, then went to the caravan parks to scoop.

Today I had to do backup vocals at the morning program.

In the drama, the Porter was so tired from carrying Dr Nasty person through the desert that she collapsed, so Dr Nasty Person decided to get rid of her.
The Desert Detectives were still trying to find the Mighty GodSword. Doug asked June to pass him the rake, and she thought he said 'snake' because she was listening to the radio, so she passed him a snake. Doug jumped and threw it to Sandy. Sandy threw it back to Doug and fell over. Doug threw it up in the air and it landed on Sandy. Doug was going to kill the snake with his shovel, and 'make a snake and kidney pie', but June stopped him because it was her pet snake.
Doug unearthed a disposable nappy. He got a spoon out of his boot and began to eat from it. Doug and Sandy grabbed it so they could go and post it to the Professor.
Dr Nasty Person led the Porter back on stage, shouting, 'Slave for sale! She's not very good, but she can do the simple chores. Going cheap!'

Andrea brought the Professor his mail again. He had a look at the nappy from a safe distance, then Monster appeared. He told the Professor that he'd made him a cookie and cheese sandwich this time, instead of cheese and cookie, but he'd decided to eat the cookies, so it was just a cheese sandwich. Monster was unhappy because he didn't have 'much wise' like Derek, who knew all the answers in a school test that Monster failed. But the Professor told Monster that being wise wasn't about knowing things, but knowing how to use the knowledge you've got and acting sensibly. This reminded the Professor of a story from chapter five of the First Book of Kings. Two women both said they were the mother of a baby. King Solomon offered to chop the baby in half so each of the women could have a piece, because he knew the real mother would let the other woman have the child rather than let him/her be killed. 'Maybe the nappy that the Desert Detectives sent me belonged to that baby,' suggested the Professor.

Today we had three kids in our group - Anthony K, Matt and John. John is Matt's friend, and stayed at his place for New Year's Eve.
We talked to the guys about how King Sol had wisdom because he asked God for it (1st Kings 3), and based his life on God. Unfortunately, he got a whole heap of wives and prostitutes who didn't base their lives on God. He stopped basing his life on God, and things went crap.
We talked about things that people base their lives on, like cars, money, popularity, and came to the conclusion that God was the only one that was eternal.

Today was Cooks Day Off, so we all went to kids' caravans, cabins and houses for lunch. On Monday Rachel invited me to have lunch at her house, but then this morning she changed her mind and decided she didn't want anyone coming over for lunch. So Erica and I went to Shayna and her two sisters' house. Shayna's dad was Trav's Phys Ed teacher last year, and studied at UoB. Her mum was Emily's fill-in music teacher. Shayna's Grandma gave us tomato soup, sandwiches and doughnuts.
When we got back to the church we found out that Glenn had had a cheese and cookie and bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich. His stomach gurgled all through siesta.

After siesta Ian and Karen went back to Bendigo.
I went with Laura, Jem, Brooke and Erica to the launderette. We left our clothes to wash, then met the others at the beach.
We waded out to a rocky, bush-covered island that was densely populated with penguins, mostly dead.
Laura, Jem, Brooke, Erica and I went back to the launderette to dry our clothes, and I got a photo of myself inside a clothes drier.

Tonight Erica and Stoz hosted a trivia night for the kids and their parents. It was packed out - we couldn't fit any more tables in the marquee. I had to hand out the answer sheets, and afterwards I looked after the bookshop.