Coondibah Lagoon

Well the eye is looking much better after a week. The bruising has gone down and there's just a bit of colour around the eye socket now to betray any misdeeds at all.

And Eloise's spirit remains unbowed as she charms her way around.

For instance on Sunday we went "up the coast" to Dicky Beach at Caloundra where you'll recall there's a dog-friendly lagoon just back from the beach where little tots can swim with impunity (or is that impugnity).

And swim she did, for three hours or so, on and off her little boogie board, jumping around in the deep water and introducing - or is that imposing - herself on every swimmer and dog in the pool and surrounds.

Her general strategy is to wave, approach, then place herself in the way of her target, smiling at them until they relent and engage in primitive conversation, or else forego that and just play.

Usually Nicole and I will hang back and let her get on with this, so that she can figure out for herself how to go about this meeting people thing. We don't generally need to intercede.

Tiny loved the lagoon yesterday as well, lounging around by the side under the shade of a tree, and occasionally when she got too hot, trotting down to the water and going for a swim. Matilda didn't really fancy a swim and just rooted around in the shrubbery to see what she could find. Oh.... and stole a crisp from a little boy....