It's been a while...

Rosy and I are still in Wardell and plan to stay here until after Easter. Most of the caravan parks up north are charging extra for the Easter break and the park we are staying at have agreed to only charge us the normal rate. Colin and Wendy who own the park are really nice people, so are the caretakers Lyn and William and not to mention Craig the groundskeeper. Then we have also met some very nice people, Michelle and Ron and Ernie and Betsy. It's just like one big happy family.

Anyway, we haven't updated the blog because we have been so busy. I flew down to Sydney to get our passports from storage for our impending trip to Norfolk Island to celebrate my youngest sisters birthday. I stayed at the Youth Hostel in Central and it proved to be quite good digs for the price. I stayed just long enough to get to the Southern Highlands to grab a few things, spend a little time with my friends William and Jonathan, get back to Sydney and fly back.

Then the flood of work hit. I have been basically sitting in front of my computer, being very creative and systematic with some big jobs. Rosy has even had to give me a hand to cope.

The next week Rosy flew down to Sydney to catch up with some of her friends in the city and her Dad, but the trip was really to attend to a few doctors appointments for her foot and other things. She was away for 5 days, but I was so busy that it seemed like she was only away for 2 days. I did manage to go to Lismore for a few hours to get out of the van. Rosy has had to take control of taking the dog to the beach, cause I just get away and I am a bit brain tired from all the thinking I have had to contend with.

One of the big projects finished yesterday and hence why the blog update.

The sun is finally out all day and the temperature is quite nice. The air conditioner comes in handy with the humidity, but we have only really used it once or twice in the past few weeks.

A few of my dreams has been pointing me towards having fun, so i got a collection of the old Carry On movies to give me a chuckle. They were such characters.

I have been also helping a neighbour (Michelle) with her new computer (Vista -Aghhhhh!!!) and her husband Ron is really into music. I can sometimes hear him playing his guitar as the sound is carried along by the wind. It's so relaxing and quite ethereal. Anyway, Ron told us about these neat gadgets that you can put on the car and caravan tyres to let you know when they need more air. They are called tyrecheckers and they come with a locking device to stop thieving. You buy the tyrechecker that is as close to the preferred pressure setting for the tyre. Having the caravan it's a bit harder to find air at a service station that can handle the size of the rig, so we are getting an air generator that keep our tyres at the right level. I don't like taking chances with tyres when they are the only thing between us and the ground.

The other thing we recently got, which took a bit of finding, is a book on TV Across Australia. It shows where all the TV antennas are in the area, what stations are available and whether they transmit in analogue or digital and whether polarity is vertical or horizontal. Generally it takes an hour or so to get the TV turned in to a new area. It gets a bit frustrating when you don't know what stations are available cause I don't know if the antenna is pointing in the right direction. This will help me no end.

We have done a little touring. Lismore is pretty much like Ballina and Casino really isn't worth the effort. It's still pretty green there so it looks like they got a fair bit of the rain. I must say though, I have discovered Wendy's Mango Smoothies. Just the thing for warm sultry days. The semi-trailers are a bit of a nuisance here and it is not a place we would like to stay for a prolonged period.

One thing I would like to comment on is Roadwork speed at 40kph. I was driving over the Wardell bridge the other week and there were some roadworks being undertaken on it. I was at the head of the queue, there were no signs to reduce the speed, but I was still doing 40 kilometres below the normal speed limit. One of the workers yelled at me to slow down and that made me think that roadwork speed is the same as school zones speed and the reason that school zones have such a slow speed is that children have not got fully developed brains. So what does this say about road workers?

That's enough from me.