Well, life’s still cruising along, even if we aren’t currently cruising anywhere. I haven’t updated for a while, mainly because there hasn’t been too much to report on. As planned, we left Alice to return to Adelaide where I had to have some minor surgery which has happened and went well. Just have to hang around for another 3 weeks until I see the doctor to get the all clear for travelling. Funny thing, but doctors don’t like doing surgery and having their patients go off galivanting around the country straight away, doesn’t matter how good they feel apparently. Anway, another couple of weeks and we’ll be heading north again – back into warm weather, and more importantly, warm weather clothes – shorts and singlets! We’re both really fed up with jeans and jumpers and cold weather.
Some good things about being stuck in Adelaide is that we’ve caught up with our good friends Steve and Jill again – been practically living at their place, so undoubtedly they will be glad to see the back of us and get their life back to normal
. David and Steve have been busy in Steve’s workshop and so far have made a metal storage box which will go under the van to carry our outdoor table, chairs etc, and they have also made me some wooden drawers for the pantry. Our pantry is tall and narrow and very deep – (60cm deep [or 24 inches]) which means I can’t reach the stuff at the back, and of course whatever I want always seems to have migrated to the back of the pantry! My new drawers will make it much easier to find stuff. Thanks guys, you’ve done a great job.
We also caught up with Sharon and Barry who hung around Adelaide for a few days until we got here – had a good couple of days with them before they headed over to the west – we’ll catch up with them again in the new year probably. My sister Gail and her partner Russell also passed through Adelaide on their way to Darwin so we got to spend a few days with them too – and we will catch up with them in Darwin in a few weeks. Lovely sister that she is, she called me from Darwin where they were sitting on the dock on a beautiful balmy night, waiting for their dinner to arrive and watching the sun go down! She just wanted to share that with me!
This coming weekend our son Ben and his partner Kat will be visiting us – so we’re really looking forward to the weekend. It’s Ben’s birthday on Saturday so the weekend will consist of lots of great food (we’ll be eating out a lot) and drink and catching up. Can’t wait.
Hmmm, while I said I haven’t had much to report on, reading the above, we’ve been really busy and had some great times, so I guess I’ve just been too busy to write about it all until now 
I’ll let you all know when we’re ready to move again.