Short Stories (V.2)

Version 2 is right! I've already written this post (almost finished it)! Only to realise I haden saved it. So here goes, short stories v.2. 

Monopoly with Jack

Jack is the son of our boss at Roche Bros. Jack loves monopoly, so much so that we once played twice in a day. However there is a fatal floor in Jacks game plan. He has to have Mayfair and Park Lane. I regularly exploited this plan by (fortunatley) landing on and purchasing one of this. Then making Jack pay $2,000 for it. Who says I'm not good with kids?

David's Walks

Our second WWOOFer friend, David, enjoys walking and trekking. Most days after work he is out walking the surrounding area. Then on Fridays he's off until late on Sunday. I mention this because one evening we herd a gun shot and wondered if he'd been shot for walking through someone else's land. Fortunatley David came home about an hour later. 

 

Mike's visit to the Doctors

I've had a small bump on the back of my neck for years. However about two weeks ago, this bump became much larger and was becoming very uncomfortable. After a week I gave in to Chloe's 'suggestions' and went to the doctor. Where I was informed I had an infected cyst. 'Fortunatley' the infection could be drained. After moving from the consultation room to the We Have You Now Room. I was asked if I liked scars. My response was quick and clear, "I'd rather not have them!"  45 minutes later and I was out. My whole neck in a bandage, but I was out! 

Thanks to our Medicare card (actually number as the card is in Sydney. Too long winded for a post called 'Short Stories'). I only had to pay for the antibiotics.  

Batlow Apple Blossom Festival

The festival was very interesting. An array of rural community life. There were stalls and food stands, of course. Along with, vintage cars, a hay bail maker, forest fire fighting truck, AND the history of kitchen utensils and sowing machines in Batlow. It was just so very... fascinating. 

We sat and watched the local orcstra (try to) play some 'well known' songs and the Windy Wizard. Who I found hilarious, I think its fair to say Chloe didn't enjoy the performance as much as I did. Sadly we missed the apple pie eating competition. 

Visiting the Dam

We were luckily enough to visit the Kosciuszko National Park Dam with Lachie and some of his family on our last weekend in Adelong. It was lovely, but I've mainly included this so I can add a photo. 

David's Hair Cut

I only include this because its hilarious that I cut some of his hair. 

Christmas Jobs

We have now moved on to Melbourne in search of Christmas work. Unfortunately this has ment we've left Adelong eairlyer than expected. But we wouldn't have found work in mid December, so here we are. 

Image Time

Post Drs. 

Batlow Apple Festival

Kosciuszko National Park Dam

Last Day Photos

Waiting for the coach to Melbourne 

Day 1 in Melbourne -  Richmond

Hotel Transylvania nearly has me...

Hello!

Having been here (Adelong) for about 6 weeks and having now decided on our next stop, I thought it was a good time to post again. Also Chloe is currently watching Hotel Transylvania and starting to fall asleep, so why not. That being said, I maybe writing this 'now' but it will probably be a couple of days until I have signal to post this. 

That has been one of the slightly annoying things in that we never have signal here. Though we are in the middle of hills and mountains so I guess it's to be expected. 

We have met two other WWOOFers since the last post. A German girl (who's name I'm going to avoid writing for fear of a drastic misspell), and David from Hong Kong. It's very interesting to hear about other people's reasons and journeys to WWOOFing and to Australia. 

The last few weeks we have spent most of the time pruning and packing apples. It's amazing how time consuming some of these tasks can be. We have now listened to most of the music and podcasts on our iPhones. That being said, we have enjoyed doing something very different to what we were doing before. However we have both said today how much we miss the jobs we had back in the UK. 

We are now planning on moving on to Melbourne in the first week of November to seek work before Christmas. That will be another exciting adventure, as we look for accommodation and work over the next few weeks. 

As our time at Roche Bros. Fruit comes to an end we will try to cram in as much as possible while planning for Melbourne. Last week we visited the Adelong Gold Mill Ruins, walking along most of the paths and some paths, looking back, I'm not exactly sure where paths (we were walking past the bottom of people's gardens). It was a lovely walk, if slightly hot. 

Those of you that are friends with Chloe on Facebook will also know that two of the dogs next door had puppies last week. It's amazing how much they grow in a few days. 

We have had a great time here and will enjoy the next 3 weeks, but we have missed the beaches. Hopefully we'll be near the sea in Melbourne. 

***** Trying not to be distracted by the film ******

There was a big family-friends dinner here last night which was lovely. The only annoying thing being we didn't take a photo. This has been one of the best things about this part of our journey. Getting to meet and spent time with a group of family-friends.

Anyway their about to do the 'Zing' song on Hotel Transylvania so I must go. 

We hope all our family and friends reading this are well and looking forward to the blizzard winter the BBC (other news providers are available) is saying your going to have in the UK.

*Highlights remembered at a later stage

- Watching the Sydney Roosters win the NRL Championship. 

- Ricky Martin's pre-show 'show' hilarious!

- Not sure it's a 'highlight' but trying to save the chooks after a dog attack. 

- Visiting Woolworth's (it's a supermarket here). 

- Going to Henty, the farmers comicon. 

- Trying to decide whether or not to use horse medicine (a long conversation). 

- Watching Game of Thrones season 1,2 and most of 3. It's a new addiction! 

- Watching a 20 minute news segment on children being injured on trampolines (8 a day in Australia)!

As per, photos below

Chloe helping with the pies

Pruning 

Day trip to Wagga Wagga 'Beach'

Sunday morning view

Gold Mill Ruins 

Chloe with the dogs

....and a puppy!