Kim's house

Things can change rapidly. Last week Kim, Pam's doughter, got a desparate phonecall from Tanbar Station: "please come back, and work for us". She could not refuse, and decided to take the offer. Within three days time she packed her possesions and left on Friday morning for a 1300 km drive to Tanbar Station, near Windorah, outback Western Queensland. She will be there for the time (years?) to come.
Why do I tell you all this? Well, her house is empty again, so we have gladly become the babysitters. It gives us an excellent base to realise our own building plans. We can have a normal phone connection, broadband ADSL internet, 3 bedrooms (did you read this Rein and Marein?), a three bay garage, the garden, the varandah.
We will move from the caravan park propably next Wednesday for a 1 km drive.

K-59 Geleen

I grew up In Geleen, the Netherlands. In 1959 ( I was ten) K-59 was founded, a "youth association". Although I was too young to join the more interesting activities (dance evenings; the soos), I became a member of the tabletennis team. We played serious competition for many years.

Last weekend there was a reunion of many members and some old pictures showed up.
(K'59 Geleen ).One of the pictures is of the tabletennis team from 1966.

I recognize Ferdi Kuzmic (top 2L), Jan van Dinteren (top 3L), and of course myself (bott 2L)

Other names that I remember were John Bovendeerd; Jos ???(top 5L).

Is there anybody who knows the other names? Please leave a comment on this blog.

The house (2)

And this is the view from the block of land we have in mind. The house will be just to the right of the fig-tree (dutch: vijgenboom).

The House

Something like this.

Sloppy me

Yes I know, I am already 2 weeks back in Australia and there is still the story about Narita Airport as my last post.

I am sloppy, I have always been, and I propably will not change.

This does not mean that nothing happens, I just don't take the time to sit down and type. Ok, a little update then: The trip was nice, it was even better to be back on the ground. An overnight stay at Pam's mothers place, and back to the Perry. Unpacking, relaxing.

Last weekend we had the anual camel races in town. One of the major events: Not just camel races, but also dunny races (dutch: wc-pot racen), goat races, toad races (dutch: padden racen), lawn mower races. All of this surrounded by betting, eating and drinking. As usual, a great day.

In the meantime we are working towards a more final settling here in this country town. There is a block of land for sale that we realy like and we did some homework in designing our little house. Now its up to the builders (aannemers) to give us an acceptable quote (offerte). Exiting !!!

Its now the 11-9; tomorrow is Pam's birthday, and we will make it a nice day out to Mundubbera where they celebrate the 100 year existence of the township. that will be some country fun again.