Friday (Good Friday) 15th and Saturday 16th April 2022
We have to move because we didn’t book for Easter. We can however, stay within the Park. The neighbour has been away for a couple of weeks but left the van here. This ‘nifty’ solar light automatically comes on at night and looks like a burning flame. Bunnings?
N.B. I don’t think I have ever written/typed the word ‘nifty’ before. So ….
The spot we had to leave. Opposite en-suite style bathrooms and down the quiet exclusive end of the park. Partitioning shrubs.
The park has a book exchange and some basics. Handy though.
We settle in to apparently the worst site in the park. Near the entrance and apparently so small, that they only let it to RV’s. Well I managed to get the 20 ft van in (really 26 ft with A frame etc.) and the Ranger AND it stayed connected AND squeezed Anne’s little Ford Laser in AND still had space for two chairs outside the van. Piece of cake.
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Saturday 16th April 2022
We will test the repairing foot out. Haven’t walked for a week. So a short walk to the cemetery where Anne’s Mum and Dad were laid to rest. Beautiful place.
This is the shady spot near a lake.
Several lakes in the park. We look at a lot of headstones. It’s history. We do it all around Australia and it is enlightening as to how harsh it used to be.
This one was a little sad. Someone had been here and draped the head stone in tinsel for Christmas, but here is Easter and they still haven’t been back to clear the Christmas decorations.
Back to the van. We are doing maintenance. We have caught up some of the back filing of three years paperwork and washing today.
I made a mistake. I have stopped to add up how much we are spending to get into the house. It was a good exercise because now we won’t be paying someone to paint four rooms. We will be doing it ourselves. (*!?!?!**!!**!?!?!)
Back when we lived here, renovating was relatively easy. Things were cheaper, I had a couple of good, cheap private building guys, a good, reasonably priced and reliable plumber, I was younger fitter and stronger and I wouldn’t have dreamed of paying someone to do what I could do myself. That was a quarter of a century ago. Now, generally, I just can’t be stuffed.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, so what ever we do, it won’t be general shopping other than perhaps supermarket.
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