Thursday 29 August 2013 – A quiet day

We had a good sleep-in this morning, waking just before eight.  It was quite warm then (today was supposed to be 28 degrees, but not sure if it quite made it).  After brekky we rang Janine for her birthday, did the massive load of housework which is part and parcel of caravanning life (just joking), then sat around for a while before going to have a cuppa with the Browns and the Caseys,  who incidentally all have colds, so we didn’t fraternise too closely with them.

By the time we got back from there it was about twenty to one, and sausage sizzle Thursday was just about drawing to an end at the camp recreation area.  Grant managed to get one sausage and by then they had run out.  They obviously didn’t cook as many as they did last week, probably because there aren’t as many in the caravan park at the moment.  The southerners are starting to head home.  Lyn, the manager, came out and asked if anyone wanted any more sausages cooked, but Grant said no – he must be having a thin day today!

While there we caught up with yesterdays co-passengers, and chatted with a couple from Drouin.  He (the male half of the couple) is a celebrant.

After lunch we went to Urangan to the shopping centre where Grant had to get some prescriptions filled and we did a bit of top-up shopping, then stopped off at a souvenir shop on the way home to have a bit of a look around.  Back at camp it was sit around with a cuppa, meet the new neighbours (again Tassie-ites) who had moved in just before we got back, and read a magazine or book until it got too cold for me to sit outside – nearer to 5pm today, whereas I’m usually heading indoors a bit after 4.

Grant just brought a baby bird into the van – some sort of a minah but not an Indian minah, clutched in his hand.  It was just outside the van and he put his hand down and it walked onto it. I told him to take it outside and put it down, and to wash his hands thoroughly so he doesn’t get bird disease.  He eventually did that, and now the bird is out there twirping at him.

So that’s today …. pretty unexciting after yesterday, just a lay-day, catch-up day, rest day, recharge day – name it what you will.  It’s also a multi anniversary day – Janine’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Janine), Grant’s anniversary day (now 21 years since we lost him) and my remodelling anniversary (2 years since my breast surgery).  How time passes.

Grant relaxing after tea tonight.