Sitting outside the pub, beer in hand, watching the cows ambling up the main street in Rubyvale, I'm a bit concerned I'll never leave. The sound of the grey nomads playing canasta in the caravan ...

KIDS rode a flooded Retreat Creek in inner tubes, the locals have decided to drown their sorrows at the Rubyvale pub, while only the foolhardy attempted to cross swollen floodwaters on the Gemfields.

Sitting outside the pub, beer in hand, watching the cows ambling up the main street in Rubyvale, I'm a bit concerned I'll never leave. The sound of the grey nomads playing canasta in the caravan ...