OCTOBER 2018     MOVING PREPARATIONS

Early in the month, Bus was trundled off to our mechanic to have the little radiator leak rectified. I was not looking forward to the prospect of finding somewhere in Bendigo to do future services and repair work on Bus.

Four days before we were due to move, John drove the Bus to Bendigo and left it parked on site at the Marong Tourist Park. Daughter drove him home the next day and stayed on to help with the final packing and cleaning, and to transport our collection of potted plants in her covered trailer. That was one type of item the removalists would not take.

Another had been John’s pile of several large slabs of African Mahogany timber, that he’d had shipped from Darwin back in 2006. These had lived in an alcove at the back of the carport, until such time as he got round to making tables out of them. Back in April we had, with a huge effort, loaded them onto John’s new tandem trailer and he’d taken that to Bendigo, to live, trailer and all, in a shed that daughter had arranged, until we moved. Getting rid of those had really improved the appearance of the front of the place – and was something that had been “going to happen” for over a decade!

Much neater without a great stack of timber in there…