A nice warm night. We wake and think there may be some snow around, but no. What little snow we had yesterday is pretty much gone now. So we realty got a bit lucky yesterday with the timing.
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Day 4 – Rest Day
Not nearly as much wind overnight as we feared, and the diesel heater did it’s thing all night so in the end not a bad night’s sleep.
We hear a lot of rain, it’s got to be too heavy for it to be snow, and it too comfortable in bed to get up and check.
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Another really cold night, and the heater turned off around 4ish, but that’s fine, we’ve got the remote beside us, so I turn it on again around 6ish.
It’s really windy this morning with the odd gust really buffeting the van around. I wouldn’t like to be in a tent.
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Overnight, sometime just after midnight I wake and the heater is off again, Bugger. The van is still warm, so not the end of the world. The kids are in then new sleeping bags, so I know they’ll be warm and I pull up an extra blanket on us. I would restart the heater, but on this damn Thermostat mode, it runs like a jet for 10-15+ mins, and in this quiet valley you’d be able to hear it back in Cooma!
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Up at 7, but I’ve been awake off and on since 5.
Final food and gear packed, so it’s not till 9 that we pull away. As we’re heading south we do a first! The M8 heading south was recently extended and there is now an entrance near The Cresent at the far end of Annandale. So in about 2km, we leave the suburb, hit the Motorway and are on our way. Much easier than fighting our way through Marrickville and St Peters.
Continue reading “Day 1 – Home to Adaminaby”Preamble
The plan was always to try and get down the snow over the holidays, the kids really liked Selwyn, but weren’t so keen on Thredbo, but in the end there just wasn’t any snow to visit. Over the weekend I thought stuff it and arranged for Liam and I to go camping for a couple of days up the Watagans, so I booked a spot.
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Friday 28th
No Action yesterday (Thursday), which given the showerscreen is probably for the good
The electricians turn up and start their work. I think the heater is doing their heads in. But eventually I think we’re on the same page.
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Monday 24th
A big day, the plumber is coming to fit all the items and put the taps on. He also has a bit to finish outside.
Of course he doesn’t arrive quite as early as arrange.
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Wednesday 19th
No Action Yesterday
Today the Plasterers return to put the boards above the tiles. The idea is there will now be a flush finish between the plaster walls and the tiles, so we won’t have the dustcatcher that masqueraded as a picture rail like before.
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Wednesday 12th
We’re getting tiles down…..Yay!
The tiling crew turn up super early, and Angus is here to start them off, so it all systems go.
They are machines, and by 3:30 the whole floor is down, what a difference having floor tiles down makes. It’s starting to look like a bathroom.
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