Day 417 Arthur River Monday 19th March 2012

Qasimodo at work in the open air kitchen

Luxury after 13 months we can now open the lid properly!

Evening folks,
From a very windy camp site. Today's blog once again starts last night. Susan slipped and fell on her bottom while we were out walking yesterday. Once she got into bed last night she had a lot of back spasm pain and a very poor nights sleep.
This morning after some heat rub and copious amounts of nurofen she was able to walk around still in a fair amount of discomfort. However since it was camper pack up day she had no choice but to battle on. We got there in the end and will sleep in the swag tonight. As mentioned above it is very windy here at the moment and it was a fairly unpleasant day with my estimate being winds gusting to 60-70 kmh.
However it is a rare day when something good doesn't happen. Today was no exception. Talking to our neighbour who was asking about our storage in the Pajero the subject of fridge slides came up. To cut to the chase his slide which was exactly the same as ours extended about 15cm furthur. I took ours out and examined it but could only deduce that the bottom slide was not extending. The only choice was to perform percussive maintenance. I can now report that we can enter our fridge by lifting the lid not taking it off as we have been doing for over 12 months.
I also managed to effect a repair of our car awning. this was a bit more agricultural in that i replace a light weight aluminium pole that would not lock with a tent pole. A couple of hacksaw cuts and adrilled hole was all that was required. 2 things fixed in one day!
I shouldn't laugh but to see Susan in her condition shreiking and dancing when a mouse popped from the kitchen into the camper twice today was also a bit of a highlight. Although I was taken aback the first time as i thought something really serious had happened like a snake bite or amputated finger due to the volume of the screaming.
However even in her debilitated state she knocked up another terrific tea from left overs.
Tomorrow back to Nowhere Else. Let's hope we don't get blown away tonight or rained on before we have packed although it is 90% complete.
We also hope Susan has a good nights sleep and  a rapid recovery.

cheers Folks