Chapter 8.1

2008 This is the year James retired but since his retirment I have been unable to visit the property due to knee surgery.

It was about August we ordered the American style barn.
James went to the property to arrange the construction of the 12x12 slab for the barn.
By going himself , he has managed to save quite a few thousands of dollars by purchasing the rio, the chairs,the plumbing items,the sand for the concrete and ordering the concrete from town.
It took 3 truck loads to do the slab.
We also saved money by having some one other than the shed company to lay the slab.James's brother had a friend from QLD come down for 3 days to lay the slab.

According to James,the man did a maticulous job not leaving a cm out of line.

Night time found them around a camp fire enjoying a "bevvy" Scottish for a drink.
Now we await the arrival of the barn which is surposedly to arrive this week.


It was about Early August I had started to contact Telstra to have the phone connected in the farm house.
The operators could not find that there was ever an existance of a phone line ever being connected in the house.
This was not true as the tenants that were the workers in town had the phone one whilst they lived there.
I could not remember the phone number nor could I find out where they lived to ask.
I tried several times to convince them there had been a line there, they just wouldn't have it...
As this time it was a Friday and the surposed excnage the line went through was close they couldn't talk to any one about it so I had to wait until the Monday.
Monday came and yes they found a line and gave me a new number BUT then they decided no , not that number we'll give you this one...
It became a comedy of errors from go to whoa for the connection until about 2 weeks later a line was connected and we had lift off....