Well, what a time I've had since I last updated this. Plenty of work, mustering branding, mustering selling, mustering branding etc !! Plenty of partying too.
Willy, one of the brothers I work with / for had a 21st a couple of weeks back and we wwere all invited to the party at the station up the road. 170ish guests were invited with the instruction, beer is free, bring your own spirits ... I bought will a present and made the most of the free beer !! 1080 tins of beer were bought - I know because I had to unpack them all and load them into big tubs of ice. The party started at 7pm and I made it until 5.30 am. Others were there to 8am. I was however back up at 9am and was given a telling off by the birthday boy for not drinking. (he wasn't drinking however and I managed to limit myself throughout the day !
Last weekend was the Gregory Canoe Races and we made the journey North for this, 3.5 hrs north ! We went up on the Saturday and made camp, cooked tea (dinner) on the fire and had a few beeers before heading to the pub for a few more. We were stopped by the police for drinking in public and told to get rid. All but one of us tipped our beer away, but one of us (not me) thought get rid meant down in one. 15 seconds later he was given a $75 fine !!. After the pub we retired to bed ready to see the big race. It's a 43 (roughly 26 mile) race down the Gregory river with some serious and some really not very serious competitors. We station ourselves just below the finish line in order to see the finish (makes sense really), and tooo down some beers to have while enjoying the sunshine. We had a nice deep water hole to swim in and some shade to lay in too !! What a perfect day. The sunday evening was the rodeo and bull ride. We went back to camp and had tea (dinner) and got ready for the night (by having a beer or two) One of the guys we were with is a none drinkier and drove some of the guys up. We wated back and walked up later to fing the car they had gone in pulled up by the police. It turns out the the none drinker had taken the lads to the rodeo grounds and they had all gone in. Unfortunatly, two of the guys needed monet and so drove the car to the cash machine at the pub. The police pulled them up just as they left the pub. The legal drink drive limit here is .05mg of alcahol per 100ml of blood (i think). James blew .243mg/100ml. He goes to court next week, but at least he didn't have to drive home !! This week has been pretty quiet socially but still working long hours although it is getting colder. This morning it was only 17 degrees at 6am and the top was only 32. I have a cold.
Last week I was out riding / mustering and my horse fell over and rolled on top of me. I realised I was bleeding, but couldn't work out where from. I had bitten my tounge and thought I might have bitten through it. It turns out I had busted my nose. I think I have broken it, but having never broken it before I don't know what it feels like. All I know is that it still hurts and when I blow my nose my teeth hurt !!
It was mothers day on Sunday, so happy mothers day mum xx
Martin, nice to hear from you and I agree with the good things about Oz. Keep reading the blog - I am in the process of making a list of the things I hate, I'd love to know if you agree !
To everyone else, glad to hear the sun is finally shining back home and hope you have all enjoyed the summer.
Thats all my news for now but keep reading and sending comments to me.
Ed
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