Day 5 (Saturday 27th September)

It is Saturday and we decided to keep working, as next week the kids will be back at school and we will have some restrictions on what we can do.

Today was a bit of a shock to the team, as Chilly decided to put in a full days work, as opposed to the previous days where he had spent most of his time worrying about supplies and running off to the hardware store. Chilly has perfected the art of walking around with a clip board and looking important.  Apparently this is what he does for a living and he is very good at it.

The task for day 5 was to finish classroom 1.  This meant applying the final coat of paint, and after an hour (touch dry) installing the new louvre windows and the security mesh.  Then cleaning up our mess so that the classroom can be used on Monday. Also other crews ploughed ahead with three other classrooms. As with all projects, things do not always work out to be straightforward.  The new louvre frames were each 3mm narrower than the ones we removed, meaning that we had to make spacers for each window in order that the glass louvres would fit tightly. More work and more time needed.  Any way we got it done.

We forgot to mention on Day 3 we had a lovely fish and chip dinner at Toni's Beach House, and on Day 4 we went to a little waterfront restaurant called the Country Café and had a pleasant evening enjoying a fairly adequate menu and some Australian wine. The nightly night cap session has continued with music provided by the three DJs. Our medicinal supplies are running low, with the Glenlivet and the Macallan all gone. Now down to the Aberlour.

Today we had our first injury on tour (and it was not Terry!). Paul (Robey) had an argument with a rusty nail and came off worst.  Most of the team had knocked of for morning smoko, so we missed the incident, but heard the screams (only joking he was very brave). Paul stayed to finish a task with Geoff and when pulling out a stubborn nail, it somehow twisted and ended up stuck in Paul's left arm.  Geoff fortunately has past experience as an army medic and we had a good first aid kit.  So after numerous suggestions about amputation, and other ways of fixing the problem, Geoff was able wash and dress the wound with Paul's arm saved for another day.

Photos to for Day 5 to follow.