Miracle Plunge?

The Gold coast Bulletin Wed June 25th.
An abseiling window cleaner survived a seven storey plunge from a surfers Paradise high rise.
Apparently Walter Torres was cleaning windows on the Solaire apartments when he fell, hitting a beam on the way down and being pulled up short 10ft from the ground by his harness.
The headlines read ''Man's miracle plunge''.
Was his plunge a miracle or the fact that he survived the fall?
These kind of stupid blunders make me feel very disheartened with local journalism and the local ''rag'' which might prompt you to ask ''why do I read it?''- I wonder myself!

Our Home Cont.....

It's here!

It's amazing!

It's stupendous!_______ and it's OURS!

Yes the mighty Expando-Riffic-Van has arrived and we're inside.

Sorry we haven't blogged for a while but we've been encountering technical difficulties with our emailing-blogging system.

Anyhow we are settling in quite nicely. .

We've been hanging some blinds and stuff - the usual things when you move into a place. Annie ordered a wardrobe and it's been fitted, minus the doors, which should be here tomorrow.

The thing is nice to live in, a sort of cross between a house and a caravan.

Our Home

Who is this man?

Annie's Club

 

Discovering the Tweed

Annie and I had a great day out with Paul. 

In the morning we drove up to Fingal Head, a long spit of land that runs from where we are at Chinderah to the mouth of the Tweed.

Annie is pictured at the mouth on the Tweed Heads / NSW side.  Across the inlet is the Coolangatta / QLD side.

The two lower buildings behind her are the Twin Towns Services Club where Annie plays the pokies. This should  work out well for us as we can boat down the river to the club.  I can drop Annie on the beach in front of the club so she can give the pokies a bashing and I can go fishing.

We then drove back down the coast to Kingscliff where Paul shouted us  lunch at a Thai place he'd found earlier. Pretty good too!

    

Ahoy there!

This is my boat. 

From now on I would like to be addressed as ''Capt Steve''

Asked the young bloke next door ( who owned the boat ) If he wanted to sell it. He said I could have it for $300 so I said I  would ask my wife.  He popped his head in about 30mins later and said I could have it for $150 if it took it straight away so I did'nt bother to ask my wife and took it.  Called in to a boat place to enquire about bits for the trailer and ended up buying a 2nd hand motor, 1/2 price, with one years warranty for $700.  After I buy a bit of the required safety gear, a bit of paint for the trailer etc should have a nice little boat with near new motor for about a grand.

I sort of want to be like Huckleberry Finn and spend time with adventures on the river.  It's such a grand river. The sort where one just has to have a boat.

Will keep you posted.

Over and out

Capt Steve.

Latest from Chinderah

All things come to he who waits -  and we're still waiting.

Our Dial - Hut is still in production so we're going up the coast today to check out what stage it's at.

Annie and I are still bidding on fridges via E Bay but keep getting knocked out at the last minute - I guess we are duds at the bidding thing.

I think we will have to resort to the ways of old and buy one out of the paper. Fridges seem hot property on the Gold coast.

The guy next door has a little fibreglass ( ex sailing ) boat and trailer for sale for $300. A bit old fashioned and heavy, but cheap enough. It will need a motor and some paint on the trailer, but is basically all there and will make a good project.I hope someone will visit us and come boating up the river.

The pictures show the river in flood, though not threatening. It goes right through Murwillumbah which is a good way up from us - and wide too. A very big river. Makes me feel like doing the Huck Finn bit.

 

 

   

Not so welcome Winter

We have done it again, having incurred the wrath of the weather gods, we have spent the last three days watching the rain pelt down and high winds ablowing. The Gold Coast Bulletin advised readers to prepare for a "weather bomb" similar to a category one cyclone. Cabin fever is setting in again.

All is not lost though!  We have discovered a lovely area of  fruit and vegetable farms very close by. It is such a delight to see acres of vegie plots and to be able to buy the fresh produce from stands. After eating the sad stuff from the Supermarkets we are over the moon.

One of the farms has a sign saying "pea pickers wanted" It would suit Steve but he would probably eat more than he produced. Every time we buy a bag he eats them before we arrive home.

Kingscliff, also nearby, is a beaut seaside town with all the amenities including a very good Library which we have joined.

Murwillumbah is 15mins away and an interesting town to visit.

The Expandavan is nearing completion. We inspected it during the week and can't wait to take delivery in a few days. It's not much fun walking to the Shower these cold mornings.

Ebay watching has been a fun exercise. We were bidding on a fridge and got outbid at the very last minute. Needless to say, we are bidding on another and are the highest bidders at this stage with three  hours to go. We were successful bidding on a sofa and now have the Ebay bug.