Wednesday...8 September

Tomorrow is Elspeths birthday. Have a good day kid, we will be travelling so may not catch up with you.
Yesterday we ventured forth to view Rockhampton. Lots of cattlemen stores and pubs and plenty of  fiberglass cattle on various buildings and street corners.
Other than that there is a massive shopping centre that goes and goes forever, humungous, had me hobbling at the end of the once up and down stroll.
Today we took the van to be upgraded on the springs from four leaf to seven leaf. This was just us being kind to the van and ourselves with pro-active thinking, you know how it goes, fix it before it becomes an issue....lol. Like all good mechanical stories you go for one thing and they find something much much worse already wrong!! The spring rocker had a crack. Looked downright broken to me. Keith said on the shit factor scale of 1 - 10 this registered as an 8!!!
Problem solved, will redesign, (damn yankees)!!!!  Its been welded and we are back on track so to speak. We got to sit around doing nothing all day then when we went to pick it up at 4.00pm it was "nearly ready". We rolled out of their yard at 6.30pm leaving behind one very unhappy mechanic who had to do overtime whether he wanted to or not.  Now all we need is a someone (like a much younger brother) who works for an engineering place and is a welder/fabricator and we will have nice new rocker bits,,,,,,, wont we Johnny?????
Couple of very tired nomads tonight. We have already cancelled dinner and may have a cheese sandwich later...