Kitchen activity
Doris (HK), Romain (Fr), Conrad (Reynella), Alison (Can), Selina (Taiwan), Aisling ( Eire), MIA Alec (Geelong) due to sickness.
Fuzzy group hug!
I don't know why I was pulling this face as I lifted up the carving knife in it's scabbard.
Hi Folks,
Today we started packing (in theory). I did haul the trailer up to outside our unit and reverse it into position. We did a little bit but our unit is resembling a minefield with boxes everywhere. Tomorrow is going to be a big day. I spent time this morning chatting to the guys about the ins and outs of the pool. Mercifully Susan found the pages from the procedure and they are laminated and in the pool room. For her part she spent the day mostly tidying up loose ends for the handover. This is made more complicated with the big school visit in a week or so. Tomorrow we must concentrate on packing. We came away from Adelaide at the start of the year in a rush with stuff chucked in vowing to sort it out when we got here. This hasn't happened yet!
Ilan and Lynne put on a nice dinner for us tonight along with the helpers and a few local people we have got to know although not as well as i thought. I didn't know Chris had a doctorate in geology and had lectured at Flinders University. He and Kate lived in SA for some time and had many locations in common with Susan and I. It was a good night with some excellent food and great chat. Ilan said some nice things about us and Susan gave a heartfelt emotional speech. I gave a random wandering speech reflecting the preparation that didn't go into it. We received a home made card from the "staff" plus a water colour scene and card painted by Helen Gee.
We will return to this area at some stage to catch up with the people we have met and who have offered us accommodation. Whether we return to The Resort will be a decision we take along the way. It is nice to know there will always be a place here for us.
We have drinks and nibbles tomorrow night in the cafe so that we make three evenings of imbibing in a row. No wonder we are feeling tired!
From my reading of the coffee machine paperwork it has a 2 year replacement warranty so as long as there is stock it should be a straight swap of the main unit. Fingers crossed. We need our expresso. Lola's (the yet to be born offspring of Phill and Amanda) college fund has been swelled by our attendance at the cafe for our caffeine fix. Tonight's images are a bit fuzzy as for some reason Susan's flash was off
night Simon
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