Day 9 Fruit Picking - Normal routine, up at 6am to work at 7. It was a very nice warm day again at work. We saw 2 Black Cockatoos though, so if the folk law lives up to its reputation (which it normally does) we will have rain soon. I finished work at 3pm as usual, drove home, dropped off all my stuff, picked up my surf board and wetsuit and went off for a surf. I checked Dicky's Beach south end, but the surf was small and wind chopped so I drove up further nor...

Day 8 fruit picking - Standard up at 6am start work at 7. Two of the other pickers didn't make it to work for some reason and one of them went home at lunch, so only 4 of us were there all day. It also got hot early today, I was just in shorts and t-shirt by 9, and had pink arms by the end of the day! I got home at 3:30pm, had a cup of tea and a sit down, then went off to walk the dogs with Fenella and Digs. We walked them round the near by reservoir, which is...

Day 7 Fruit Picking - This morning was the standard work procedure, up at 6am and work at 7. It was absolutely freezing today, even in the sun it was cold until about 10:30am, the wind was bitter. We picked until lunch time, then spent the afternoon weeding etc. I got home from work about 4pm having done a little overtime. Cecily was having a birthday 'party' in the evening, so she was just having 10 mates round for a bonfire. I helped Mark and Diggor make t...

Day 6 farming - first day back after the holiday - I got up at 6am, back into the work routine, and got to work a little early to quickly catch up with the others - they had 6 days of rain while we were away and apparently work was absolutely grim in the mud etc, so I'm glad I missed that! Work was same old same old - it was flipping cold to start with due to a cold wind, but soon warmed up. It felt like the day went very quickly, but I think it's because I had...

Our first day back at home was a standard post holiday day - tidying and sorting out. I woke up at 8 despite being very tired as that was the routine we got into whilst camping. No one else was up so I spent over an hour just writing up and editing unfinished days blogs etc. When everyone surfaced I got up and had a shower and breakfast. I then spent all morning and some of the afternoon unpacking stuff, and helping move all the contents of the kitchen back int...