Saturday, 31 August 2013

Saturday 31st

Another early start today as we were helping to move around furniture in Ian and Debra's rental property. Myles and Ian set off with Tara the dog in the truck and Debra and I set off in the car. We had errands to run as well so we would meet the boys there. We went to the butchers then picked up Debra's mother Ronnie and then headed for Campbell town to pick up some parts for the broken pool pump. Those acquired we were heading for 52 (the rental house) we got a call along the way to pick up some mower blades from Bunnings the same as homebase. We made a detour and a useless teenager with a backwards cap gave us the parts and a spanner to fit it with. As we were leaving I asked why I could smell a BBQ. Turns out every weekend Bunnings provides a BBQ so  a different charity can do a BBQ to raise money. I thought this was a fantastic idea and loved bunnings because it was HUGE. Another 10 mins and a good few hours after the boys arrived we made it. We called them inside and we all had some hotdogs from the BBQ which were lovely :) turns out instead of moving furniture the garden needed some attention and they were cutting down trees! (Can't leave them alone for a second!)
It was a long day of cutting down and cleaning branches and moving beds and mattresses but we finally finished and all looked lovely ready for people to move in the next day. The boys headed off first again and we swung back into Campbell town on the way through to pick up fruit and veg and some seafood. 
Another long drive in the dark and we got stopped by the police! A very friendly guy was doing breath tests at the side of the road all good we pulled off and were finally home! We put the shopping away and I went upstairs to call home as I had some spare credit to use up. A good half hour chat until that ran out and then it was dinner. By this point poor Myles was shattered and fell asleep on the bed. I went downstairs to help with cooking and just as we were plating up Myles' nose kicked in and he was there! We had some lovely panfried snapper with an array of fruits and veg. Everyone ate and enjoyed that very much! It wasn't until we were cleaning up that we found the chips that we didn't serve up! Oh well those wrapped up with the left over fish meant we had a little snack for tomorrow! After this we had a little pudding and headed off to bed. A lovely sleep followed as we were all so shattered!

Tomorrow is Father's Day in Australia :) 
More of that tomorrow though! 

3 comments:

  1. Nice to hear you are both working hard and therefore Myles may be burning off all the food we keep hearing about! Keep up the good work. X

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  2. Looks as though you both have your feet firmly under the table there - enjoy! nice to catch up with you both - mummy xxx ps although you are not receiving many comments, but believe me, there are very many followers out there including the Tayor Engley lot, Kirsty & Stewey Bear and loads more they are always commenting saying how much they are enjoying the blog

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  3. and me too. I very much enjoy sharing your lives via the blog. It seems winters are not too bad over there, about like our summers perhaps ? This year though it's been really lovely here, warm and sunny nearly every day, not looking forward to being cold again! Must get the knee rug out in readiness! By the way, Where are we to send your Birthday cards to? No address ! Much love, G.xxx

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