Day 32 - Kalgoorlie
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 09:14AM Short blog tonight as I have just finished work & I have to be up at 4am to go to work in the morning. Awwwwww….. I can hear you all saying as you read that over your late night chocolate (Kirsten) or early morning coffee (Liz, Heather, Meredith, Arama….& others) but a guy has to sleep!
We went to the Kalgoorlie museum today & boy do I have some stories for you, I read up on Paddy Hannan & the Gold Rush, I read about the stolen generation of aboriginal children….Made me sad & we learnt about the hard lives that people lived here even as recent as 40 or 50 years ago, it was a tough place to live. I’ll share more when I have time.
We also took a step back in time today, we needed fuel in the Land Rover so we pulled into a service station & Ness got out to fill up, this lady came running towards us & asked us “How much do you want?” yes….she was actually going to fill it up for us!!! And she then came around the front & washed our windscreen! I would move here for service like that, very impressive.
Reader’s Comments
Celeste, thanks for encouraging me to make up words to well known songs….Stay tuned & I’ll give you my version of “Ride Like the Land rover”
Sandy…thanks for joining us on the blog….We know you read it every night but it is great to hear from you.
Dave R… the movie Home Alone comes to mind Dave…stock up on Pork & chocolate & good movies, Lyndal will not know…..she is in Melbourne!
Carol & Mike…good to hear from you too from Creswick….did you know it is going to be 26-28 degrees in Newman next week when we are there????
Annie’s Blog
My Mum must have said something to my Dad….Because he was quiet as a mouse this morning, I didn’t even hear him leave. But when he came home he made up for it because he made lots of funny noises from his bottom, he was laughing about them….But mum was saying “James that is disgusting!”…..Hope he shows me how to do it.
We went to this place today that had lots of old stuff in it, but I can’t understand why people keep it, if it is old shouldn’t you throw it away?.....Most of the stuff I saw was old & rusty & dirty….. and there was not one thing that was pink!
I think my Mum & Dad are attached to this one shop called Rivers. Whenever we are in a town that has a Rivers store Mum & Dad always go in????
Night everyone.
AnnieInAVan
Reader Comments (2)
Guys sounds like a very inetresting trip as you would know would love to be there with you experiencing the great outback we have in this country very underated buy us Australians ,,,,
One request please send some warm weather over hear ,i like you James have early starts now in Laverton and i think i am working in the coldest place in Melbourne @7:15 this morning was 4 but wait will get to top temp of 12 today ...And this thing might come out of the sky ,i think they call it the sun or somthing like that ....
Enjoy reading you travels and buy the way do we have a can count this trip or have i missed somthing along the way ...
It's still quite common in quaint little ol NZ for someone to come out and "fill er up", then wash your windscreen and have a good yarn. Some of the larger servos are actually using it as a marketing point of difference to have a "forecourt attendant" between certain hours of the day.
Just had my brother, sister-in-law and their 2 kids here for the week. They left yesterday (phew!) - my house is a bomb site and my computer is needing to be replaced after my sister-in-law "threw" a glass of wine over me and my Macbook Air......for some reason they always manage to cause havoc where ever they go. It's turned out to be a rather expensive glass of cleanskin wine.... Oh the joys of family! Bet Evan is going to cringe when I send him the bill. He's a tight #$%# at the best of times.