Gismo Queen and her King

Day 21 - Ewingar - Sunday 19th May 2024

 Now, this is camping! Absolute peace and quiet with abundant bird life and bush surrounding us, a roaring camp fire, brilliant sunshine with not a cloud in the sky - and oh, how we kept busy today! (Although when I write it down, you’ll wonder what we did all day).

We awoke to a cool morning, so the gas heater was turned on to warm up the van. I had to get moving though as a fry up breakfast was on the menu and I had said 9am. So while I finished my morning coffee in the filtered sun through the trees, i fired up the outdoor kitchen for eggs, bacon and baked beans (turns out, I had forgotten the hash browns at the supermarket). We enjoyed a delicious breakfast as the day warmed up. The fire was resurrected (not a bad effort given how much rain there was) amd we started our jobs. Firewood to cut, a bit of weeding and tidying up around the campfire, foot stools (cut logs on their ends) to position and all that before elevenses! Andrew and Courtney came to visit just as the coffee was being poured but they were on their way to lunch with friends so didn’t stay long. Then there was more firewood to cut (the new electric Stihl chainsaw is going really well!), clothes line to string up to air the towels, before I needed to wash my hair. Being the first wash since a colour and knowing that lots of red would still come out, I wasnt keen to do this in my sparkling white shower. Conveniently, Neill and Jude have an outdoor shower (with hot water!) so I donned my bathers and washed my hair in the sun. It was pretty warm by this stage anyway but the hot water was very nice. Then in a true team effort, we made scones and enjoyed them with jam and whipped cream. Neill, Jude and I did go for a walk after that as we had spied some self seeded pumpkins from some of Andrew’s compost and we wanted to add one to dinner. We also thought tomorrow’s menu could include pumpkin soup for lunch!

As the sun strated to drop behind the trees and we layered up in front of our roaring campfire, we cracked open the celebratory bottle of champagne Sunland had given us with the van and enjoyed nibbles with it. Andrw and Courtney came to join us for dinner which we all enjoyed around the fire. As I said, this is camping!

posted by Tracey @ 6:27 pm