Saturday...29 October 2011

Blasted public holidays, long weekends etc!
The boys have been doing all sorts of stuff since our trip to Geraldton on Wednesday. They have knocked out an inbuilt brick bbq and replaced pavers and put up a tempory fence until they can fetch some more earth to fill in the hole where the bbq used to be. When they get done with that project you will not be able to even tell there had been bulky brick bbq built into the patio. It was blocking the view of the wonderful new backyard and its marvellous water feature so it simply had to go....!!
Then they started on a kitchen renovation in my caravan. Well it started as a simple vent cover over the exhaust from the rangehood that somehow dropped off somewhere down the road and morphed into a total kitchen unit rebuild.
Today they got up nice and early and headed off back down to Geraldton, (196kms each way) to buy a new stove that is actually a stove top and griller, no oven as we have one like that and do not use it. They were planning ot get a nice new rangehood to match the new stove too. But alas, when they got there they were greeted with a sign on the gate saying the place was closed for the entire three day weekend.
Now I am personally not too surprised, it is WA after all and we all know that WA stands for Wait Awhile!
Cannot believe that a caravan supply shop would be closed on a long weekend, after all if you are ever gonna need a caravan supply and repair shop would it not be on a bloody long weekend??
When do these people think that the average caravan owner is likely to breakdown? While they are parked in the shed between trips or during holidays or long weekends??? The logic defies reason.
So now I have a caravan with bits all over the place while we wait until the place opens on Monday and either go back down or take the chance and have them send the new bits up on a truck and hope like hell they get it right......(bet they don't!)
If and when they get the nice new stove etc then I will have a couple more drawers for fitting things into thus making life in my kitchen so much easier. Bring it on.