Happy Days Are Here Again - Midi Playing
OUR PEACEFUL STAY AT   
                     KELSO SANDS CARAVAN PARK

Thursday 3rd January 2002
Well, we were ready for our four day stay at Kelso.
Off to get the last of the alterations finished before our middle G/daughter
Vanessa, her fiance Jason, plus our Great Grandson Ethan, were to join
us on Friday.
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Hubby George got away early, I was cheating and on the computer, 
when an insistent   "Brr  Brr" of the phone interrupted me.

Vanessa! -- who blithely told me she was all packed and ready to leave,
a day early, if that was alright by me ?
Well what could I say ... NO ! ... of course I would not say that,
  I just hit panic button.
Work I should have been doing at Kelso - STILL HAD TO BE DONE !

 HA! HA! ...how wrong can you be, 3 hours ahead of me and nothing
done, he had been having a wonderful time socialising.

I don't think I will tell you what I said whilst I did his work and mine,
 no coffee, no fag and not even a trip to the toilets ... all that had to
wait & the "Brute" never even said he was sorry.

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    VERY SOON - they arrived & Jason, Vanessa and I got busy
erecting the tent Aldonna, the eldest G/daughter, had when she
was just a toddler.
 We thought it would be ideal for Ethan's cot.
HA! HA! AGAIN.
We got it up alright and then  "IT"  decided it was so old
(about 22 years), and did not want to be used again, so it
ripped itself ... RIGHT ACROSS THE ROOF !.
Panic averted ... we always keep a " pup" tent    in the
van, so out it came & up it went, speedily, because the weather did not
look good.
It was a bit of a squeeze for them .... but they managed OK.
Jason had left to visit his mates, so Vanessa & I gossiped, and finally
had that long overdue cup of coffee.
George ... oh yes he was still with us, well in body but not in spirit, he
still had his eye on people he wanted to chat with.

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 NEXT 2 DAYS - busy time having lots of fun, especially Ethan, who was
as bad as George, he was forever visiting somebody, we couldn't blink
without him taking advantage of it.
He was a very popular little boy and others down there encouraged him
to visit them.

They saw Possums that will take the bread from your hand, Wombats
that are as blind as bats, a couple of Wallabies and many, many Rabbits.
I, of course - never budged - I had had enough, I just soaked up the
peace and quiet for as long as I could; until they came back again,
full of excitement.

You would never believe that they first started camping before they
were born, but I guess they were hyped up showing their partners
what Kelso was all about.
Finally we got everyone bedded down ... peace for a few hours.

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   WHEN ........ DOWN CAME THE RAIN
 
I DON'T MEAN A SHOWER BUT A DEAFENING DELUGE .... OH BOY!

I swear the rain just waited for us all to feel safe, warm, and in a deep
sweet sleep, zzzzzzz,
 before it decided to descend upon us about 4am.

The men of course stayed in their beds, whilst Vanessa and I checked
that all was dry and safe.
Well the pair in the car were OK .. Jason who was still in the tent,
moved his mattress until he found a dry spot.
Ethan decided he had had enough sleep and wanted to play.

George snored in his warm bed .... Vanessa and I gossiped again.
Eventually Jason gave up on the tent & came in to sleep on the
Annexe floor,
so Vanessa bedded down in the van, on a make-shift bed, which she
shared with a wriggling Ethan.

OH BOY ... LOVELY RESTFUL TIME HUH ?                                    
                                                            HA! HA! AGAIN & AGAIN.
Next day the sun paid us a visit so off to the pool for a long swim,
then a walk to the river frontage to check if spearing flounder at night
would be possible ... which it is ... GREAT said Jason & Damien!