Day 64 – Another Day in Paradise
Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 08:57AM Ok here is an observation! I reckon if you live in a particular environment for long enough, you can become influenced and then actually start to participate in that environment!
What I am trying to explain is that Ness & I are relatively new to caravanning, sure we did a big trip a few years ago and we are on the road for 5 months this year…. But some people have been doing it for years…. And they become very comfortable with the environment they are in.
So comfortable in fact that they forget that there are other people in the same environment!
Try to think of it like this, you live in your house with your partner, and once you stop having to impress him or her you are quite comfortable ducking to the loo in the middle of the night with no clothes on, or dropping the occasional fluff (Except for my wife & Lorraine G who seem to have lost control of their fart valves!)
Some of the people we have seen on this trip just don’t care what they do or look like in front of us! Today was a perfect example, we saw a lady with a sky blue dressing gown with the belt half undone the dressing gown had these white fluffy clouds on it and she had a pair of brown ugg boots on. But each time she took a step the gown flew open and you could see her bits! It was not pretty!!! And then we had the guy that had to do some washing, he went into the laundry with his bag of dirty clothes, but then when he saw the cost of the machines he must have decided to make the most of it and stripped down to his undies and threw the clothes he was wearing in too! I’m not kidding, Ness nearly choked on her dinner when she saw this bloke walk across the park in a pair of Y fronts and thongs! You forgot about the bloke tonight who was getting around in a full woollen PONCHO and Uggies….I thought there was a Mexican in town,
But you know the worst bit! I’m becoming one of “Them” the other morning I got up early to go to work, I had to go to the shower which is only 20 meters from our van…. So I went across with a towel across my lap and my blue flannelette Jammie top on! I can’t believe I did it, luckily it was 4am and no one saw me!
How many of you take directions from your partner? Today we decided to go for a drive, I have this book that is called “20 Great 4WD trips in WA” and a few of them are up this way. So we picked one today that was only 120km and would take us a few hours. Now Pete & Egg you will relate to this. I gave the book to Ness and said “You are the navigator” the book has trip notes. And directions…. Ie.TL means turn left, TR means turn right…. Simple huh?
We head out of town and Ness tells me to reset the trip meter according to the trip notes, but we then get to a distance where we are supposed to TL (Turn left) and there is no road!
I asked Ness to check the notes again and she said to me “What does KSO mean?”
Now I have to stick up for my wife here as I have been using trip notes for years and know that KSO means “Keep Straight On”….. So we had turned when we were meant to KSO and were totally in the wrong place! So a bit of backtracking and we ended up where we were meant to be going!
It was a great drive too, man I love Australia…. Lets not Stuff it up!!!
Reader’s comments & replies
Had a great email from our neighbour Sue F, some of you will remember that Sue was commenting regularly in the early part of our trip. But she has been busy lately with some causes that are very dear to her. Sue rescues Airedale Terriers from all over the world, and she has had a few sticky (&costly) rescues lately…. If any of you are interesting in supporting Sue please get in touch, the biggest problem is cost…. Everyone wants to help but when it comes to finding the money to help these animals not many people do…. Send me an email and we will put you in touch with Sue.
Tereasa asked if we need anything done before we get home…Actually T My old Holden needs a new motor, and the master cylinder is leaking…Can you look into it for me and have it done by September? And we will be home on the 31st of August around 4PM can you make sure the fire is on and my hot water bottle is in my bed! Thanks T
Heard from my Mum the other day….She is back in Myrtleford after visiting my sister, but her gas heater broke down! Myrtleford in winter with no heater is not a nice place to be…. Lucky you are Scottish mum!
Michael G understood what I was saying about the bike riders…. Oh and also about farting wives! Enough about this…is there no sanctity between husband & wife. Michael I reckon there are more of us but we are the only ones brave enough to speak about it!
And my sister took a visiting Japanese student to the Gold Coast today to show her some Australian culture! Ha…. She would have been more at home than if she was back in Japan!
Jackie from Singapore said hello….Hello Jackie. Hi Jaxs…hope you enjoyed your bike ride today and your toosh is not too sore.
Annie’s Blog
Got another Toof, Got another Toof, hey hi a diddly oh I Got another Toof! I’m up to 7 now, and Dad said tonight that I have another one coming through. This growing up stuff is a piece of cake. I’ll be one soon and that will be so grown up. I was trying to push things even faster tonight because when Dad tried to feed me I wouldn’t eat it…. I wanted to put the food stuff in my own mouth with my own hands. And then I decided that I didn’t want my food in a little plastic bowl with a little plastic spoon, I mean Mum & Dad were eating this fancy food on big plates with these silver things called forks and nives! (That word doesn’t look right, maybe I spelled it wrong) so I cracked it and decided I wanted to eat the same food that they had with my fingers. And guess what? It worked….. I’m so clever!
Jack sent me a picture of his pig today….. I think it is beautiful, it has a very cute face….But my Dad said something that I didn’t quite understand? He said “That pig is uglier than a hatful of @#$&holes” censorship police stepped in here and he kept saying to mum “Mmmmm Bacon!” “Mmmmm Roast Pork” Jack what does he mean???
We went on this Boosh Bash today, now I’m a big girl in a big car seat, but oh boy did I get shaken up, the car went up and it went down, it went one way then another…. It was fun for a while, but then it got boring. Mum said I had better get used to it as Dad & my brother Dan love Boosh Bashing. Maybe if they let me drive?????
Big Pilbara Kisses to you all XXX
AnnieInAVan…..XXX
Reader Comments (4)
Hi Guys,
Back in England, staying with my brother in Guildford because our Dartmoor house-sit was cancelled at short notice. Pity cos we'd have liked to go down there.
Anyway, not all bad as we got to watch the Olympic mens road race. A good race with a big break-away that the Brits were not able to pull back in so poor ole Cavendish missed out on his Olympic Gold. (Stewie O'Grady managed a 5th place - not bad for an old man!)
You probably heard all that anyway. Having watched the TdF last week (both live and on TV), the BBC coverage was not a patch on the France 2 coverage. The Brits have a lot to learn.
But what really pissed me off was the following news item when the BBC announce that the crowd, instead of getting to see Cavendish sprint for the finish, got so see Vinakourov (sp?) win - a convicted drug cheat! Now how's that for bad sportmanship - I was disgusted with the BBC which I had previously thought of being fair minded.
Gotta go - dinner's on the table.
Love from us both - N&M
All I can say is I love my sky blue dressing gown with clouds on it but for that lady to be wearing uggs with it ? just digraceful!, socks and thongs are the go
As for Ness's flatulence problem, it could be worse, she could pee in the garden instead of the toilet like you and your bro!
the gold coast actually looked more like Mecca than Japan this time, Brad has taken the girls to Australia Zoo today, I cant go as the rangers at the zoo walk around with huge pythons around their necks letting people touch them and last time I was there they seemed to find it funny watching me have a breakdown as I had to walk past them to see Steve irwin
xxx
Hi Annie, Guess what my dad said much nastier things about Peppa the pig on friday night! He finally finished the yard for her and was trying to catch her so he could move her to the new yard, but she must have REALLY liked the small pen, because as she was running around screaming and squealing like a pig ... ha ha get it! Dad rammed his hand into the corregated iron on the pig house roof and cut his hand up really bad and it was covered in mud and pig SH#T!!! He said he was gonna kill that beep beep beep pig! Funny i didn't hear a horn while he was talking!
Dad said were not gonna eat her but when she has babies we'll eat them and then we'll eat her! Guess we should invite your dad over when that happens! Dont know why he's want to eat her she's all muddy and stinks!!
Better go and have tea
See you soon, Jack
OK James I need more information what model and year is the Holden? Do I have to stick to a Holden motor? Can I put a big block Chevy motor in it? Also I'm assuming its an auto on the tree?? Do you want a new master cylinder or should I just chuck a kit threw the master cylinder you already have! As for the fire going and hot water bottle, Can do I'll just have to pop round to your place and cut a few dead trees down for fire wood as I think by the time you get back your wood supply will be running low. Also cause I'm such an awesome friend I'll even have dinner in the oven and a cold beer ready and a wine for Ness!!
Waiting for your advice, T