Day 24 Moranbah – 2 days to go!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 11:44PM Hello Bloggies, well we will only be here for another 2 days. MAYBE! Have you seen on the news that North Western Queensland is under water? Ness & I sat down the other night & worked out how we were going to get to South Australia, some of the places we had planned to go through were Roma & Charleville. Both of these towns have been declared disaster areas and are cut off from the outside world! The Queensland premier is flying out there today to check out the damage.
So looks like we will have to go a different way! I personally would like to still try to get through Charleville but it depends how quickly the water subsides.
Hey our new car has arrived, last year we ordered a new Land Rover, we are so impressed by the one that we have now that we decided to stick with what works. It has taken 4 months for them to build it & ship it across. This week we arranged for a set of hand controls to be fitted, & next week it will get trailer brakes, a second battery & a UHF CB radio fitted so it will be ready to tow the van. Ness will pick it up when she flies back next week & then Sandy, David & Ness will drive across to SA to meet me where we will swap vehicles, Sandy & David will drive the old one back.
For Sale: 2003 Land Rover Discovery Series 2
- TD5 Turbo Diesel & 4 speed automatic
- 105,000km (regularly serviced)
- Codan HF Radio & self tuning antenna (Worth $3000)
- Dual Batteries
- Poly air bags at rear
- Rear DVD player with infra red headphones (4 sets)
- Very little off road use
- Driven 90% of its life by Vanessa (is that a selling point?) Of course it is...
- Log books & manuals
Settle down Egg, if you really want to buy it we can talk about it when we get back, I know you have secretly loved our Discovery, think of the places you could take Jack & Bonnie!
Mary & Pete, I know you are in the market for a new 4WD, maybe we could start a bidding war between both of you couples?
Ness went all cosmopolitan today, she had to go shopping & decided that she would take her book & go up to the local cafe/bakery & get a Soy hot chocolate & read for a while. (I think she just needed a break from me?) but she returned disappointed, the local cafe has a constant stream of mine workers & locals ordering take away so she did not get much of a chance to relax! It was the visit to Coles after that was actually more distressing!! All I can say I am glad I am not a miners wife....
Meanwhile I was riding my bike, I have my road bike with me this trip. But I also have a set of “Rollers” which means I can ride stationary. I mentioned in a previous blog that we both have to put the effort in to stay healthy & active. So I sit out on the porch of the Donga, it is under cover so when it rains I don’t get too wet, but it also allows me to look towards the drug dealers caravan & watch his customers come & go. I was on my bike for an hour today and 5 cars (customers) came & went!
Hey Brad (brother in law) congratulations on your anniversary, I take my hat off to any man that can tolerate my sister for 15 minutes let alone 14 years!..... oh and well done for remembering, it is great that you can set your phone up with all of these reminders!
Heather, just wanted to share with the readers that YOU forgot your anniversary and then madly tried to make it up to him by taking him out for lunch and promising to buy him the new St George Guernsey!.... Tsk Tsk!!!
To my other sister Creep, good to see you are back on email..... get the kids to send some questions. Thanks for sending Brads (my son....not my B.I.L) mail back too..... we were wondering where it had gone.
You will all be interested to know that the can count had been considerably reduced, we were slowly getting through them.... Until Ness went shopping today & restocked the van! Another 100KG. We do have a week on the road next week and if the weather is any indication, there is a chance we could get stranded and you would hate to be without food...wouldn’t you James!
Today we worked at a site where the sessions were held in the workshop, I had to keep my voice up as there were trucks & vehicles driving past. I sometimes wonder who arranges these things, Ness is quite clear when she speaks to clients about our requirements. And she always recommends that the venue is somewhere that people can hear me & concentrate (I do talk about some pretty heavy subjects!).... yet they go & set up a heap of chairs in a workshop! So my voice is quite strained.... have another session at 6pm, so I told Ness that I can’t talk until then!
My brother in law sent us an amazing picture of a helicopter crash near Broom! Click on helicopter crash at the bottom & you will see it. Apologies if the graphic nature offends anyone.
Also go to the pictures page & look out for last night’s dinner & the spray on Balsamic vinegar! That should win invention of the century! And James bike on the porch.
Tally Ho – tie your horses up securely!
James
Reader Comments (2)
Mate you hit the jackpot with the "parent in-laws" !!
Ness, buy him a PA system so he doesn't strain that precious voice.
Not many of us get paid to Gab ;-)
I was surprised that Heather thought our anniversary was the 3rd instead of the 2nd, but the lunch more than made up for it !
Don't sell the Landrover - exchange it for a boat!! The way things are at the moment, you'd cover most of Queensland by boat. Got some advice on voice strain - breathe. The first 6 months of teaching made me think that I'd run out of voice within a year. Anyway, thought you'd have one of those little FM's clipped onto yor shirt. Don't a lot of those places have those old megaphone things?? That would be good because if you saw your audience getting bored or dozing you could make it do the horrible screechy high-pitched noise that they always do. Take care.