Plum Smuggling

Hello.

We left Geelong (near Melbourne) last Monday with a vague promise of a couple of night shifts at an onion packing shed in a town called Mannum, about 6 hours away. We arrived here on Tuesday and it turns out we can do quite a few more hours than we originally thought, so that's good. Our first day started at 7am and continued right through until 10pm. That's a long day of lifting sacks of onions for Kev, and throwing away bad onions for Charlotte.

Nevertheless, we're here to work so we've been doing that everyday, even putting in some overtime yesterday. The work's as exciting as ever but the people we're working with seem nice and it looks like we'll be able to stick it out for a while to pay off some debts and save, save, save.

We're staying in a caravan park, right on the Murray river which is very nice. We had a bunch of Possums come and join us on our first night here, and apparently one got into somebody's tent last night and devoured a loaf of bread.

Sometime this week we might be moving out of the caravan park and into a house. One of our workmates has a bit of spare room so he's seeing if we can help him out with that. Here's hoping. It's getting cold down here and it's only going to get colder. We've got the doona (Aussie word for duvet - no idea why) from the car and the other night we dug out our little fan heater which seems to work well.

This is a crappy internet station so we can't upload pictures or anything, so for now, ta ta!