The wall is progressing, digging the holes has been the challenge for sure. One of the neighbours offered to give me a post hole digger and after a bit of consideration I declined. I’ve never used one before and from all accounts they are a pretty wild ride if you don’t know what you’re doing. So, I opted for the slow unproductive option of crowbar and shovel, well it works and it’s like going to the gym every day. Some mornings I’ve woken up and just done nothing because of complete exhaustion. Mind you it has been hot, today was 37C, but I went out on my bike instead.

I only did around 21km; however, I did that in under two hours which is an improvement on average speed. As usual there are drivers that would rather try and kill you than give you a wide berth and most of the time it is because they need to cross a double white line and of course God forbid that they break the law, no let’s just kill a cyclist. Fuckin’ Morons!

We are in the middle of a heatwave, not pleasant at all. Yesterday was hot but the wind kept the humidity away and so it was very nice sitting outside reading my book or just having a siesta on the day bed.

The humidity was also low today and so after lunch I went down to the shed for a couple of hours to tidy up and get the trailer ready for tomorrow because I’ll need to go and get a few bags of post mix for the remaining posts. I’ll pick up a few other bits and pieces and I’ll need to fix one of the storm water pipes as they are predicating rain and storms for Tuesday and Wednesday. Mind you the aircon was put on full when I came back in the house ’cause it was over 35C.

Tuesday last week I went to Ikea for the first time in donkeys, hasn’t changed much of course, although they did not have any large canvas prints that I was looking for so I had the meatballs instead and a very nice coffee. Oh, and I went to the optometrist but my eyes were so dry due to either dehydration or air conditioning that Simon could not get a good reading, but I’ll go back in June when the weather will be cooler. You just don’t realise how dehydration affects the body.

I think Wednesday was also a lazy day and I had “Dirty Nachos” in town after wandering around the library to escape the heat. Absolutely delicious 😋

But the wall has been the main focus of the week and it is coming along nicely. I’ve been on holiday for two weeks and it has flown by because I have been so busy. Very glad that I have a few more weeks of holidays because I have more things on my list to do.

I’ve decided to get rid of my water tank, well it’s an IBC plastic tank and it’s really quite the eyesore. I first got a tank due to the drought we were having but now I am going to just use water as I please. I’m not going completely feral, however if the water company won’t reduce the water levels in the dams to a more realistic level, then I am going to do my part in reducing their capacity before the rains come.