Finding Driftwood

The hunt for driftwood continued on a much sunnier day as we decided to return to the beach.  This was the beach as you would imagine the beach in Australia - white sand, blue water, hot sunshine.  No raging rivers of brown water.  No rain.  No dead blue bottles.  Also no tennis balls.  And alas, no driftwood.  Someone had obviously done a good job of cleaning up the beach.  Flag darnit.  But we were not discouraged.  Instead we moved on to the next beach.  The beach next door.  The current beach's next door neighbour.  This is a much quieter beach and on approach almost appears to be a desert island.  Almost.  For a second you can imagine Tom Hanks ambling along and yelling at Wilson.  In keeping with the desert island feel this beach had a much more promising collection of driftwood.  In fact, when we reached the end of the beach we found not one but two very handsome pieces of driftwood.  They were immediately snaffled and subsequently dragged along the beach.  Typical that the driftwood would be acquired at the furthest point of our walk.  But as we were walking back, another piece of driftwood caught my eye.  The mother of all driftwood.  A beast.  A twisted piece of wood that wouldn't have looked out of place in the hand a beardy wizard surrounded by hobbits.  I pounced on that piece of driftwood and claimed it for my own.  So three pieces of driftwood.  One for each of us.  Mystical Roo was at work doing sensible, grown up, work type stuff.  The rest of us were out collecting driftwood.  For our Christmas collection.  Oh yes.  So now I can hear you wondering what we did with all of this marvellous driftwood.  Well, firstly we tried to get all of the sand off and out of it.  Then we lugged them upstairs and had a very important meeting about how best to use the driftwood.  And this is what we did.  I used my massive bit of driftwood to create an Australian style Christmas tree.  That is, we leant it against the wall and wrapped fairy lights around it.  But doesn't it look pretty?  Modern, Australian and rather festive.  I love it and have already decided that even after Christmas, that bit of wood will be a feature of the household.  Since it's introduction to the  house it has acquired some "cones" and a bit of leaf.  It's very stylish.  As for the other two bits of driftwood, well we used them to create a kind of driftwood ladder.  A rope ladder that as Bear Z has reminded us on a number of occasions, is not to be climbed.  We saw one in a shop down the road for $90 and decided that we could do better.  Which we did.  Which we have.  Check out the rope ladder!  It's primary purpose is for the holding of Christmas cards.  Look, there's one on there already.  And some dried chillies.  Because they look cool.  Again, I can see this rope ladder becoming a major part of the household.  It just looks so funky.  Driftwood is so in right now.  I'm a fashion forward Stalky.