Lunch at Banalasta Lavender Farm

Misty morning

 This morning is very misty. So much so that I just had to step out into the chilly cold to take a few photos. The grass was not crunching under foot, which shows that it is not that cold yet. Thank goodness otherwise you will not be seeing these photos.

  As I am writing this, the sun is now shining and the sky is a perfect blue with not one cloud. So I will keep this short and get out of my PJ's and thick socks and heavy jacket and into my shorts and teashirt and go for a fast walk with spots of jogging along the way.

 Then continue tiling the kitchen wall for two hours and then more study on the computer. My day will then finish with a lovely shower and hopefully a deep sleep.

Wish me luck on the deep sleep part. I am trying my best with that one. Organic veges and no gluten or dairy, and fresh salmon every second day. So mostly vegetarian and organic and filtered water and herbal teas.
See I am trying by best. Just gotta stay away from scented people and smokers and smoke from home fire places. Well it is not a healthy world we live in, so I just have to do my best.
MCS is not fun, just challenging to stay healthy enough to look normal.

Renovations have started.

 Tiling this wall is going to be fun I told Derek.
It will cover the big hole that the plumber had to make to terminate the gas and water pipes that connected the old internal gas hot water system. So first we got a sheet of ply and cut out the wall shape, now I sit for a couple of hours each day and hand fit every tile. This is going to take a while. If I had left the tiles on the lace, we would have had to order more tiles than we needed and the glueing would have been too smelly for me. This way we can spread the tiles out a bit more and a little spot of glue on the back of each tile then press it into place. Yep, it is going to take a little while. I have left the odd tile off so I can glue and screw the whole board to the wall, then replace those tiles then grout it, then all done.

Back in 2009

Derek driving the house boat we rented for a long weekend holiday back in 2009. I added this onto my Blog due to the fact that it was an excellent, relaxing way to unwind. Houseboating is very easy and you move slowly along a river and or lakes. I would highly recommend doing it.

Cairns

We are back from a quick visit to see family in Cairns. All are well and Derek's Dad is one year older now. Cairns is a nice place to thaw out during winter, but we have commitments, so this winter we must wear the winter clothes and turn on the heaters to keep as warm as possible until the cold weather is gone. I think we will need to see through three winters altogether, then we may head west via Adelaide. Stay posted

The cold has started

Well what a wake-up. One hour before the alarm is due to go off, I got up for my morning little walk to our smallest room in our bus and found the floor was as cold as ice. So on went the electric ceramic heater down the front end, and on my way back to bed, on went the diesel heater that is located under our bed and blows toasty warm air out down the hallway and into the bathroom if I leave that door open. This I do for 15 minutes to warm the room before shower time. The TV went on after an hour of back into our lovely warm bed to wait til the bus warmed up, and the news reported that we had a -2c morning. BBRRRR now I know what cold is after the past few years of mostly summer weather with the odd cool day. Cool day ha! They weren't cool, the last two weeks were cool. So, no photo to show you due to me whoosing out and not wanting to step out of the warm bus into the freezing cold air outside to take a shot of the beautiful mist on the river. If we didn't have the fixed fly screens on our windows, I would have took the shot from Derek's side of the bed through his window. The river is wider and more misty on his side of the bus. My side is narrow and has the little rapids and bridge. Lovely.

1st May back to Tamworth

The road back to Tamworth from Glen Innes was a mix of old and bumpy and new and smooth. The interesting part is the down hill section of Moonie Range. Slow going of course but then stuck in second gear at the bottom. Derek had to work hard to get back the gears, but all good after two minutes of WTF. hehehe 

This beautiful bus was camped at the park when we arrived back. It belongs to David and Marion from Mt Gambier.

Here we are, back at site 6. Now with our full set-up. Washing done and Derek kicked back ready for our new friends David and Marion to walk over for a well deserved sundowner.