Goodbye Australia

Well we've got our flight in 3 hours and we're leaving the house in 10mins to go to the airport!

I've had the best year of my life and can't wait for this last 3 months in Asia just a wee thankyou to Rod and Belinda who've put us up over the course of the past year and provided us with the work to fund our little Asian adventure, anyway Asia in 9 hours bring it on,

I'll see if i can post something when i get to Singapore,

hug and kisses

love

Col

Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone,

I have photos of the festive period not a lot but some none the less and they will be getting posted soon, met phil tuffnel on New Years Eve which was nice, his only question was "Where did you get the beer?" Seriously!

In the mean time I've uploaded some photos of the work that me and Dave do. I've really enjoyed the work that we've been doing in Melbourne it beats the alternatives, fruit picking or call centre work, hands down and i'm learning new things everyday. Before i came to australia i would have never thought that i would be putting in foundations, flooring, walls etc for houses and much more besides.

The photos are from a house we were renovating in a place called Ararat and from a house in a suburb of Melbourne cakked Rowville, where we're staying just now. The photos are honestly pretty boring but just wanted to show that we do actually work here! By the time we leave Oz we'll have worked 7 out of our 12 months i know i doesn't sound a lot but when you've got to fit in travelling around a country thats twice the size of Europe it can be tricky.

Anyway hope everyone is well back home and that you all had a great christmas and new year

Love

Col boy

Oooooooh a Redback! and a big one too, there were loads of redbacks at the house in Ararat one actually landed beside my hand when i was fixing a door frame, quite disturbing having a deadly spider land beside you but you get used to it pretty quickly, I would be more cautious of a whitetail looks kind of the same but you guessed it, it has a white dot not a red one if they bite you the bite never heals ever! and we seen a lot of those too! 

Dav wasn't impressed with the flooring that we found, apparantely nails weren't a priority back in ye old days 

Do real builders use car jacks to hold up buildings? nah didn't think so but we're not real builders we're backpackers 1-0 

That looks safe! 

We decided to knock out the walls as well, this place was becoming a pandoras box 

This is what the house looked like once we pulled of all the fake brick cladding, it looks like dump! 

Thats the side of the house and the chimney that we knocked down, well i actually pushed half of it down from the roof! i know i know this is incredibly exciting stuff 

Starting the new flooring, with our fantastically built bearers and joists 

New floor down, no bother 

Thats the house with all the weather boards off and the some of the insulation up, i took this photo about 3 weeks ago and the house still looks like this as we haven't been back to it, but as there is never any rain theres no problem. I know what your thinking which silly bugger went up and took the weather boards off the top, that would be me! and i'm scared of heights! 

That's the new walls built 

Dav firing up the nail gun, that bad boy is a lot of fun! 

The end product, well sort of the other wall got plastered but you get the idea 

Our boss sold his old house and part of the deal was that a paved path had to be put down so we were the men for the job 

Dav brushing the sand in giving it that professional look! 

The finished article complete with matching red chuckies, not bad for a couple of amatuers! 

C'est tres bien