Day 22 Gulmarrad Friday 29th June 2012

Evening all,

The weather is slowly improving. The odd shower early and misty drizzle. Mind you the track we drive the car up is looking decidedly ordinary.

Not much to show for a days work really. 1.5 window frames

One goes up on top of the top plate. Have to take the straw down first though.

Working so fast I am a blur.

Today we started building the window frames. It all went pretty well. I managed to only cut one piece of wood to the wrong size. As usual we didn't get as much done as we anticipated although to be fair there was a fair bit of measuring beforehand plus we had to pull the wood out of the pile. The pieces of wood for the frames are fairly hefty 140mm * 42-47mm. Will be interesting lifting them up into position although after the top plates everything else will feel like balsa wood.

Today's downer was Susan driving off in the Pajero with the extension cord plugged in to the inverter in the car (power was off) with the back door closed. The other end was firmly held in the box in the camper. The cord broke and the 240V socket was pulled out of the inverter. I had been using the 2nd battery in the car to power the laptops since we didn't know when the sun was going to shine to recharge the camper battery. I threw the broken cord away since it had been well and truly stretched and there was no telling what other unseen damage it might have. Pity it was just about brand new. Susan bought a new one and I araldited the socket back into the inverter. All fixed apart from the allocation of blame of course.

With a good drying day tomorrow I will do the water sealing of the camper. We have a fair few towels and an old sheet to wash and dry from our mopping up so hopefully by Sunday things will be back to normal.

One item i forgot yesterday was the number of scripts waiting to be filled and the number processed ready to go behind the counter in the pharmacy in Maclean which is not an overly large town. Carl's answer was that since Ballina became yuppified Maclean is now gods waiting room in this area.

Night folks
cheers Simon