ON THE ROAD AGAIN................

I finished my first week as a wittler of witlof, only did till 11.30am on friday as we only had a small order - buggar.
Oh and I got promoted from just being a wittler - I was allowed to stick labels on the witlof and at the end of the day I got to wash down the conveyor belt and there is a special way of doing it you know!  I want you all to go to Woollies and look for the witlof in the supermarket and look at how it has been wittled beautifully and the labels stuck even better.
I was a bit tired after a weeks work - oh yeah nearly a week (australia day was a holiday) so had a couple or five gin an tonics to start the weekend.

On saturday did the domestic chores and had a quiet night in - it was a bit warm so we veged.  Sunday was even hotter so after an early morning walk we packed a picnic and went down to Badger Creek weir for a a lovely afternoon next to the creek eating gourmet sangas and sipping champagne.

Tone spent all of thursday friday and saturday chasing work but to no avail - its alwasy I will give you a call and it becomes frustrating as we are bothin willing a able to do anything - except for weeding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday night brought about some changes as we chatted to a few people on sunday and decided to head north of Healesville to Shepparton where the fruit picking is starting and OMG we turn up and its 42C - we will melt away picking the plums........

Of course there is the "mafia" way where you go with "Terry" to the farm or go through the red tape version.  You want to get work but you have to deal with sarcastic shitty bitches - who look down on "pickers" - its a real problem we are encountering - but we will soldier on.  We are off to do some serious door knocking tomorrow and if all else fails we will pick for "Terry"!!!!!!!!!


Its so funny but we were playing sequence with Gloria and Barry and the next night they came over and wanted to play again so Gloria wore her aussie apron and pointed to the words on it instead of swearing - what a laugh - but her favurite saying was "Off with your head and on with a pumpkin"
I suppose you had to be there but it was cute - she is 80 next month and her and Barry are still travelling around - good on them!!

Monday we were up early to leave Healesville to get to Shepparton - a really good run - nearly all the way on freeways which suited me.  I don't like the windy roads and hills - scary!!!!!

MARYSVILLE VIC 2 YEARS ON AFTER BLACK SATURDAY

MAROONDAH DAM......

THE DAM

US ON THE DAM

WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE??????

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAM - HOLDING A LOT OF WATER

IAN AND SUE (WORKED WITH SUE)

LAKE EILDON DAM - SEE THE CAR?

PICNIC AT BADGER CREEK WEIR - JUST HAD A DIP.......

Catch you all soon - love you all xoxoxoxoxo

THE WITTLER OF WITLOF SIGNING IN.........

I have just completed my third day at the witlof farm as a wittler of Witlof.  Now for those of you who have been living on another planet is is a specialty lettuce sold to Woolworths in NSW and QLD.  I expect you all to go and take a look and especially take note of the nice shape they have been wittled into.....
Next I have been given new tasks to do which included sticking the labels on the two packs which gets sent to woolies.AND THEN I got the finish of the day job of cleaning the conveyer belt which with witlof go up to be packed - I know I bet you all wish you could do my job!!~!!!!!!!!!!

I am on my feet for about 7.5 hours a day - and I know you are all saying HTFU!!!!  Well I will soon.

The girls are nice and very country up here in Healesville, but we are having fun and spreading the Sequence game to the whole country.  As we get on around we are playing the game and letting everyone we meet into our circle......

No photos today, as we have been a bit busy, but will get some more on the weekend.

Missing all of you and hoping you are all keeping in good health, and oh yes I luvs ya all!!!!!!!!

TONES TURN --

Well a day on the tractor and weed eating on the farm not much more happening as the work on the farm is slow for me Im off to Geelong 2moro to c about another job for both of us and to move on hopefully all good its a bit of a shame as we both like this little country town and all of its surroundings.
But we have to find work (If only we could hang on here for 2-3 weeks we would be guaranteed work here)

WE LOVE YOU ALL xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

CAN SOME ONE COME AND GET US!!!!!

It was up hill and down dale and round lots of bendy bits to get from Sale to Heaseville - which is down the hill from Toolangi where we went to work on the Witlof farm....
We are staying in Heaseville Tourist Park, which is in the Yarra Valley - sorta like the Hunter Valley but much prettier.  There is a lot to see around here and its very quaint and only one hour south to the big smoke of Melbourne - It is very HOT here but a bit cooler up the hill at toolangi.

Its funny you know after we moved from c4 site to c1 site we did some touring the area, but did some looking for other jobs - just in case.

HEALESVILLE TOURIST PARK - SITE C4

WALKING TO BADGER CREEK WEIR

SO MANY BEAUTIFUL FERNS......

BADGER WEIR BUILT IN 1914 TO WATER HEALESVILLE

AT WEIR

MACRO PHOTO OF SNAKE - OOPS I MEAN LIZARD!!

THE WEEDERS AT END OF ROW TWO....

LOOK HOW LONG THE ROWS ARE!!!!!!

AFTER 4 ROWS - DELIRIOUS!!!!!

I AM NOT MOVING ALRIGHT!!!!!!

We had a trip out to Badger Creek Weir - very pretty!!!!
We were up at 6am this morning -friday 21st  to start our new job - with the Cambodians - we were going to show them how it was done!!!!

OMG - we did 4 rows which took us about an hour each row with one of us on each side of the row which had three rows of plants in it!

We were shattered - I would use stronger language but it may get censored our backs and knees were numb and we have blisters on our thumbs from the knife we used to weed with.

Told ED it was too hard - see ya later - he was not worried but will talk to his brother George and we may get something less physical to do like digging trenches lol lol  lol.....

Oh and the funny thing that made my day was that Ed thought we had done a great job getting the rows done in a good time considering we were "60"...........LOL LOL LOL - he then tried to make amends by saying that I was maybe mid 40s.  He said that Tone looked 40 when he arrived!!!!!!

Oh I can't stop laughing at that one - thats for sure......

We had spared no expense in buying shirts from lifeline to wear to our new job and they have gone straight in the bin when we got back to the van park.  We were covered in dirt from head to toe - we had dirt on our feet which had gone through our shoes and socks - grubs -  we had a bit of lunch and lay down just jfor a wee rest - and woke up 2 hours later - not able to move from the bed - it has taken us 1/2 and hour to loosen up the bones....

God it sound like we are wingers but I can't believe we did that big walk up that bloody mountain and yet can't pull a few weeds - I think we need to HTFU!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy our new pics.....

HITT'N THE ROAD

Tone and I took a drive out to a nice place called Lake Conjola not far from Milton and did a bit of a kayak around the Lake.  It was a nice place with heaps of campers and their boats of all varieties.

After that bit of physical exursion we ventured over the dunes to the beach and took a dip in the "cool" water.  Silly us got burnt on bits that we missed or didn't realise - very naughty!!!!!
Met a couple called Ian and Lyn from Tassie doing a short trip from the small isle and they had done 6 years sailing around the world!!!!!! OMG in a 44 ft yacht.......

Saturday 15th was a quiet day doing domestics - yeah that never stops - reading and surfing the net for jobs again!!!!
We had a nice dinner at the Milton Golf club looking over the beach and listened to some music in the club.

Sunday - Up early and off to climb Pidgeon House Mountain AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I had climbed it over 10 years ago with Cheryl Hill and probably swore then I would not do it again - and I did!!!

It was a great achievement 2nd time around for me and 1st for Tone.  It took 4 hours round trip to get to the top over very steep and muddy and rugged terrain.  We met all sorts climbing the "Hill" on our way down.  a young couple we met suggested going down to the river only 4 kms down the dusty dirty road - yes the cruiser got dirty!!!!!!  We did a skinny Dip in the river which was a welcome cool down after our tremendous Feat.
Very daring for us old coggers.........A bit scary for any onlookers though.

We are introducing more and more people to the game of sequence - I reckon we should get the company to give us spotters fees as we are converting more and more......

Monday morning  brought about a BIG change for us as we called a farm in Toolangi VIC looking for work on his Witlof Farm and fingers crossed it will lead to more and different work for us over the next few months - just to get a bit of a kitty going......

HALF WAY TO THE TOP...

HALF WAY- HAVING A REST!!!!!

OMG - JUST THE LADDERS TO GO!!

YES IT IS THAT FAR TO CIVILASTION

DO WE LOOK AS KNACKERED AS WE FEEL????

THE DOWNWARD TREK

TONE BEING ARTISTIC

AND ANOTHER LADDER SHOT

SCRUBBY CREEK STATE FOREST PARK

OBVIOUSLY........

AND ANOTHER OBVIOUSLY....

TRAIN TRACK IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.....

Oh and by the way I am getting better at driving with the van attached and backing is getting easier - but of course I have a GREAT teacher......

Left Milton for Scrubby creek camp area which is in a state forest for free - thanks Jenny!!
Drove from there through Lakes Entrance and Bairnsdale to Sale to a show ground which is our stop for tonight - then tomorrow we will be off to Toolangi.

Milton Showgrounds 4 k's up the road from Ulladulla

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Well we moved the van from Ulladulla to the Milton Showgrounds and should be here for a while
Met some people here in the Showground and have so far completed 3 lighting jobs in two caravans here and putting a CD player and inside & outside speakers into Tina'a van for her on Saturday -Tina is a lady in a small van we met here in the showground travelling with her dog "Skip" nice lady.
Met Brian & Janice who have travelled from Noosa Heads QLD and completed some LED lighting for them

Had our 1st job interview Thursday at the local pub and should be getting some hours with them next week ,Carolyn is going to be doing Kitchen Hand work and i will be painting the hotel rooms out (Bloody hate painting -Oh Well! cant complain it all helps)

Met some German Back packers that were staying next door to us in the showgrounds for a while and they had dinner and played games with us on Wednesday Night Bloody Contreau came out (BAD) idea but it was fun.Well so far the spider episode has backed off "Thank God".

We are also trying to maybe get some fruit and vege picking jobs in Victoria, its a hurry up and wait episode at the moment.  Well its the weekend now and its happy hour so catch up soon...

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Ciao for now

Milton Showgrounds

Tina on the left From WA and Phillip & Tania from Germany

Milton Showgrounds

Lake Canjola Beach

Lake Canjola

What a Stunner!

What another Stunner!!

At work - keep it up boy.......

Overlooking Burrill Lakes Beach

ULLADULLA

We had a loooong day on Thursday 6th January as we departed the Central Coast, making some stops on the way to say our good-byes.....
Ulladulla is a lovely place, and we may stay here a while and check out the local area and maybe as far as Canberra.
We have had a great weekend with Jo and John Blackmore who were holidaying at Mollymook.
We had our first LESSON tho - which is "Don't be Impatient".  We were a bit nieve and paid top dollar for a van park and could have stayed in the Milton showgrounds for far less..... Oh well we will not be doing that again LOL LOL....
Enjoyed the last few days in the sun, but raining now, we have moved to the showground now and will look into what the local work place is offering.

How could I forget....We are getting with the local fauna and as yet I have not come face to face with our little furry 8 legged friends but Tone has had them on his bath towel - in his undies - that could have been interesting....So we now have to make sure all is shaken and shooken to make sure they do not become part of the family.

Holiday Park we stayed in.....

Our site - Nice van!!!

Local Fauna - left their poo at front door of van!

Tone doing up John Blackmore.....

How athletic.....

OK it must have been a good joke from Jo Blackmore

Enjoy the photos.

On the Road........

6th January 2011........

Roadshow

This day is our  leaving date and we are finally on the road.  We have finally decided to go south, after much toing and froing.  So our journey starts....... Work here we come!!!!