Busy getting ready
Rob is coming on the trip. Yipee
Bill and Helen visited The Little Bush Princess and Ben at Mannering Park  to welcome a new grandson, Jet.

What a cutie lucky he doesn't look anything like me.

Why is the international colour for chicken green. Every thing chicken flavoured seems to come in a green bag or container. Who decided this, probably the bloke who invented chicken flavouring that tastes like no chicken I have ever eaten.

Testing the new generator. Why do they put the oil filling hole in such a terrible spot. Had to modify a funnel with a piece of tube to fill the oil. Put in some unleaded and pulled the rope , nothing happened. Decided it might be best to turn on the ignition and viola she started first pull and settled down producing 450 watts on the meter. Why don't people use the words on and off on switches anymore what the hell do those symbols mean anyway.

Hi everyone.

Purchased a picnic set for the trip $31.00. Had a planning meeting last night at the Ganmain Hotel. Rob might be coming on the trip in his new NISSAN. This would be great 2 vehicles means twice the fun. Here is a piccy of Rob catching a big one on our Echuca trip.

Got out the old tent today. I didn't know that rats could eat half a tent in twenty years. What a mess, so I hopped on ebay and bought a new swag for the trip.

Hope it does the job of keeping the native fauna out and protects me from the elements. Les and I have started to compile a list of the things we need. Will have to cull the list or buy a truck.
 It looks like Geoff is going to make the trip so at least we will be eating well.
The generator has just arrived so I will finish the post here for the present.

Just having some unperscibed sleeping medication. We used to call it beer.

Road song  no 1.
I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes.

Me husband is a keeper, he's a very busy man
I try to understand him and I help him all I can,
But sometimes in an evening I feel a trifle dim
All alone, I'm plucking pheasants, when I'd rather pluck with him.

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's mate
I'm only plucking pheasants 'cos the pheasant plucker's late !

I'm not good at plucking pheasants, at pheasant plucking I get stuck
Though some pheasants find it pleasant I'd rather pluck a duck.
Oh plucking geese is gorgeous, I can pluck a goose with ease
But pheasant plucking's torture because they haven't any grease.

I'm not a pheasant plucker, he has gone out on the tiles
He only plucked one pheasant and I'm sitting here with piles !

You have to pluck them fresh, if it’s fresh they’re not unpleasant,
I knew a man in Dunstable who could pluck a frozen pheasant.
They say the village constable had pheasant plucking sessions
With the vicar on a Sunday ‘tween the first and second lessons.

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's mum
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker's come.

My good friend Godfrey is most adept, he's really got the knack
He likes to have a pheasant plucked before he hits the sack.
I like to give a helping hand, I gather up the feathers,
It's really all our pheasant plucking keeps us pair together.

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's friend
I'm only plucking pheasants as a means unto an end !

My husband's in the forest always banging with his gun
If he could hear me half the time I'm sure that he would run,
For there's fluff in all my crannies, there's feathers up my nose
And I'm itching in the kitchen from my head down to my toes.

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's wife
And when we pluck together it's a pheasant plucking life !

Much ebaying over the last 3 days to get a good portable generator. Found a 4KVA one and purchased it for $250. Reads good on Ebay but then again most things do. Wonder if anyone sells cheap electric BBQ's.