Have a great holiday Dave.  Enjoy every bit of it.  You've earnt it.

cant ever take the phone off Ibbo, goes with me wherever I am and whatever I'm doing

I had this fellow come waltzing over to me just a while ago, he had his lunch box with him and he says G'day, sits down under the tree next to me and starts eating his lunch, I thought, a million bloody square miles for this joker to pull up and have lunch and he's got to come and sit beside me

he starts asking all sorts of questions about the machine and what I knew about it and how long I'd been operating it, I finished up saying to him whats this forty bloody questions or something, wheres your bloody badge, if you haven't got one then piss off and mind your own business, I get a tad grumpy with no sleep for days

all was revealed a little while later, he is the reaping contractor that was sacked from this job, he asked me what I was doing for three months next year and if I wanted to work for him, I said no, then he said I'll match whatever you are being paid now, I nearly choked on my Sanger, I asked if he knew how much I was getting paid, he said no but I will definitely match whatever it is

so I told him with a smile, he got up and walked over to his Ute and made a phone call, when he returned he said okay, could have knocked me over with a feather, so i will be working for this peanut next year, still dont like him though! should be interesting!

Yep...tram still goes to Glenelg........but only small numbers can get on now.....

he's a smug bugger so we will see if I go the distance with him!

Dave dont get me started on those bloody windmills, I had a daytime job with a feller up around orroroo servicing the windmills up there, as you know the lower the wind speed the higher the windmill has to be in order to catch it, some of these things up there are better than 60 feet high, with huge blade span, I have had many a day on a broken platform trying to get the mongrel out of gear so it doesn't bight me

I made more money of a night time shooting roo's for jesser meats

gee Dave you are making me want to stand in the street with the for sale sign and yell at the passing traffic 'buy this house'. All the things ive missed about Adelaide i love the market and Hahndorf. Last time i was there took my daughter out for her birthday to Sammy's at the marina in Glenelg had an exeptional seafood platter lobster included and nice view too. When we move i will have to go to Adelaide every six months and that wont be hard to take at all. cheryl

and the best part is that we will share this with John and Lynne, we will take our lad with us so he can see the Pandas, good friends enjoying each others company in a great place life doesn't get any better than that!,

we love the little shopping center just before the market, there is a little Chinese feller in a hot dog stall who we got to know very well last time we were there, we go and see them every time we visit the town

we often get emails and phone calls from him and his wife, Adelaide is so easy to get around in and so "people" orientated, the colorful food court with foods from around the world and all so cheap, the shopping at the mall, the market, the gardens, dining out, all so easy and at hand

we will go back to our little Chinese restaurant in Gawler, it's just across from the cinema, every time we go there we get seated by the entrance to the kitchen so staff can sit and have a yak with us, great folks

take a ride on Popeye and the paddle boats, maybe lose a buck in the casino, have a pasty in the gardens and feed the ducks

cant wait!

Have fun and indulge yourselves silly !!  : )

right that's it, I'm just letting her wind down and i am out of here, to tread this dreaded stairway no more, well not till next year anyway!

the boss pinched my car and filled it with fuel, the dragon reckons she's got everything packed so as they say in the movies, I'm history!

well for a week anyway! dont know if there is internet in the hotel/motel!