The title of this post suggests that you might be reading about some of the park residents here, and that was the original plan. However, I’ve had to edit the original words due to gremlins in the works again! I’d taken photos and put words together to introduce the animal residents in the park, (while we do have some really lovely permanents in the park, in general, the animals are much more interesting) but once again I’m having problems downloading photos! We’ll fix it and post that stuff once we get home and have access to really fast broadband. Meanwhile, here’s a brief update on what we’ve been up to.
I know I’ve been really bad at updating this site and I could put it down to being really, really busy, but I’m sure none of you would believe that, so let’s all agree that I’m really slack! What is true is that nothing terribly exciting has been happening, or at least I didn’t think you would find it very interesting reading (although after saying that to someone today, I’ve been told people still like to know what we are up to, even if we don’t think it’s of much interest). We’re still working at Countryside Caravan Park with Karen, Deb, Mick and Gary, but it’s a quiet time of year and not too much has been going on. There have been people in and out of the park over the past few weeks, and some of them have been really nice and have shown a lot of interest in our van, but apart from that we’ve just been working and hanging out in the park on our days off. The weather has been pretty good – some rain at times, but mostly beautiful sunny days, even if they are cool. We’ve managed to play golf twice in the past couple of weeks, once at Tura Beach Country Club (a beautiful course, right on the beach, with spectacular views of the coast from the 8th hole – shame we didn’t have the camera with us!) and one at Bega (which I wasn’t very impressed with) but that’s about it. We are still enjoying our time here though.
We did have a slight issue with the van – we couldn’t get any hot water for a couple days. David checked out the gas and ignition system of the water heater, and we ended up having to get Chas the plumber in to have a look. Chas found the problem – a spider had made a web in the air gas mixture tube which was very difficult to see, and the web was interrupting the gas flow to the burner, but once Chas cleaned it out everything was well, even for the spider, who made a quick getaway once his nice warm home was discovered! David thinks it was probably there from day 1, and since the gas hot water system is working much better (and more quietly) since it was fixed, that’s probably quite likely. Must make sure we check for critters from time to time.
We will be in Melbourne for a couple of weeks soon – it’s Ben’s 30th birthday so we’re going home for that and will use the rest of the time to catch up with you all, do some shopping, get our taxes done etc. Not quite sure exactly how long we will be home for. We’ve got a 2 week job lined up in October at a park in Foster, and hopefully we will find some other work when we finish there. Meanwhile, we hope to catch up with everyone when we’re at home, and keep those e-mail’s coming, we really love to get them.
