Monday was Aussie day so we were releved of our work duties and spent the day baking in the heat.
Not much happened tuesday, then wednesday I got my concreting badge as we helped to concrete round the back of the house. Again, this was in the plus 30 heat so wasn't too pleasant! tonys dad came up to lend a hand aswell. He's very friendly and very chatty. He loves to tell stories (like some other old folk i know), and it's nice listening to him hearing about all the land around here and how it came about (The McLauchlans 1st came here in the 1860's). Fleur and Jack were in melbourne so Tony took us to the pub for a few beers after the work, then we went home for a BBQ and to get on the Dockic bandwagon to watch her play (and loose) in the Aussie Open.
Have been running as much as I can. Though the heat is abit off putting, a few tunes on the old ipod always goes down well. Healthy eating and very little alcohol is a welcome lifestyle change aswell...albeit a short term one! Bring on the tequila slammers in melbourne.
Today we finished off the concreting and stewed some plums! Im no pro, but in my opinion the concreting job didn't turn out that great...not very smooth and abit uneven, but Tony seems happy enough so that the main thing. We wouldn't go far in a business venture as professional concreters thats for sure! Its very hot and sweaty so not much hard graft this afternoon I hope.
The weather forecast for the rest of the week is 40 and 41 so will be very hot and sweaty. We are here for another week then have a new wwoofer to go to for a few weeks before we come back here to pick and prepare the vino. We have also applied for a job abit North of here harvesting hops in March so that would be handy to get as it counts towards our 2nd visa, and will give us some bunse ("bunsen burner, nice little earner") for after we finish here. xxx
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