This weekened Bruce and family were off to a wedding in Rockhampton, and so I had to choose what to do with a rare entire weekend to my self! Bruce suggested that I went to the Gemfields, an area where there are a few towns around an area rich in precious stones (hence the name...). Whoever named them didn't have too much imagination with the names of the towns - Emerald, Sapphire, Rubyvale etc etc. Anyway it sounded interesting but to be honest I just wanted to ...

There havn't been too many exciting events in the last couple of weeks to report (except for helping to butcher a cow, but I don't think most people would like to hear all the gory details from that) and so I thought I'd run you through a typical day for me. Wake up at 6am, grumble about how early it is. Get dressed and go have some breakfast. Get greeted by Bruce's booming-and-far-too-happy-for-this-early voice, saying something along the lines of 'EMILY! HOW A...

Well it's definitely been quite an eventful couple of weeks since the last update I gave you! The biggest thing that's happened was a slight incident with a horse at the beggining of this week. After only letting me ride 2 slow, quiet horses beforehand Bruce finally decided to let me ride a more forward going horse (actually an ex race horse...) and I thought everything was going fine. However after only 20 minutes on her I was trotting in a paddock by myself to ...

Hey all just to let you know I'm okay still! I hope you all had a good Easter! I haven't got long to write a decent entry but I'm trying to uplod some photos this time round. I somehow had the wrong postcode before, it is actually 4728. Not sure how that happened!

Right, it's finally time for me to be able to give you a update, we've come into town for at least one night! I can't quite belive that it's already been 2 weeeks since I strated this job; it's definitely been good fun and quite an experience, but I'm also glad we've made it here to see some civilization and prove that the rest of the world still exist, it is getting pretty lonely here! After a lot of effort to get up here, I eventually met the some of the famil...