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Published: October 3rd 2007
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Monday 03 September 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KAREN, DAMO AND CHRISTOPHER!!!
So we have left the Cove and it is our fourth week here at Harding River Caravan Park in Roebourne. Now it’s a little less up market than the Cove was but it’s more entertaining……either that or Bron has become very accustomed to life in a van park and is the new Esmay Watson/social worker/counselor of Harding River (who would have thought eh?)
It’s been over a month since we submitted an entry with photo’s so a lot should have happened right? Well we have made the decision to move on in two weeks time to catch up with Britt and Greg and Ruby and Eddie, so we will meet them at Kalbarri. The plan is to go to Perth and either rent a unit or try and house sit for about six months. It will be nice to move on but we’ve kind of gotten used to this place. It will be strange to live somewhere that has newspapers for sale before 3 or 4pm on the weekends!!
The kids and I go to play group at Point Samson every Tuesday, and then to Roebourne
Library on Thursday mornings for story time, I even contemplated working at the local child care centre but nothing has come of that????
The weather is absolutely perfect at the moment, the past week it has been getting up to around 35 degrees and the nights down to about 13-15 degrees. The kids and I usually go to the pool every afternoon for a couple of hours before its time for Play School (yay). It’s a tough life but someone has to do it eh? The kids are becoming quite used to van living as well (don’t really have a choice do they?). Lily does use the excuse of going to the toilet way too much just to get out of the van (don’t want to take the chance do you?)
We went to see Powderfinger play at the Triple J goes AWOL concert a couple of weeks ago, that was pretty cool. We drove into Karratha, bought McDonalds, and sat on a rug and listed to the finger for free!!! There was a crowd of about 7000 people and the kids were great (although Lily did use the excuse of needing to do a poo just to
keep walking past the play ground - did I mention that there was no toilet paper the first time and we had to trek back to where Matt and Ethan were sitting, on the other side of the oval, get the kids nappy bag, trek back to the toilets and then of course Lily didn’t need to poo anymore……………..no I didn’t mention that?)
10 Things you need to know about Living at Harding River Caravan Park
1. You need to take your own toilet paper to the toilets - the rent is $100 cheaper here probably because of the cheap and nasty and rough loo paper
2. When your husband is working - you need to take the children with you to the toilet as well (can get very cramped and you must be quick because Ethan gets into everything…….)
3. A trip to the toilet can take up to 40 minutes (especially if you have to stop and talk to everyone who Ethan waves to or who Lily asks a question!!!)
4. People make way too many noises in the toilet/shower - don’t they realise they aren’t in the privacy of their own home
and other people can hear them?
5. People who have toilet/shower/air conditioners/annex in their vans shouldn’t complain to people living in pop up jayco’s?
6. The play ground has red dirt instead of sand and no shade, what the?
7. On Friday’s it’s Pie Day - for $4.80 you can get a pie and your choice of drink!!
8. You must wave to everyone who drives past your site
9. Because of the wind on the west coast, the clotheslines don’t rotate!!
10. Matt and Bron have the best site (corner block, shade, grass - you get the picture ) and people have their eye on it for when we leave
Yesterday was Father’s Day and we enjoyed the day with Bron and Nev (aka Nanny and Poppy). Matt had bacon and eggs for breaky, prawns for lunch and then we enjoyed Twilight tunes in the park at Pt Samson with a couple of beers.
Matt has enjoyed his time working at Whim Creek Mine, at least it has been different and he has seen how a mine operates. He has gotten quite used to eating his pub lunches for
free and will now have to put up with wraps and sambo’s again. The kids and I went out to meet him for lunch a couple of weeks ago and they had fun looking at the birds in the cages and Bundy the Kangaroo came for a visit and ate an apple. Ethan wasn’t so sure about Paddy the Brahman cow though, and Lily didn’t seem keen to let him lick her hand with his rough tongue.
Matt had the opportunity to go deep sea fishing a couple of times (and caught some fish). While he was out at the Archipelago Islands he saw turtles, sharks, dolphins and whales and he has been lucky enough to catch a few mud crabs, which were delicious (I’m sure we sent some of you some photo’s ha ha ha)
Ok, so this blog wasn’t funny as I had stupidly promised and it wasn’t ready for you all on Monday morning but at least it’s a blog with some photo’s. Time has run out as Ethan is into our coffee mugs and causing a ruckus - who’d have thought?????
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