4 posts tagged “batemans bay”

I have kinda made up with my nan now and we are staying in their caravan, in their sons field... I feel like trailer park trash!!!!  Ok, Mya has tried to change her tickets but can't so I have to stay here until Mya comes.  I have no idea what I am going to do until she comes in April.  Maybe find a job, some admin work.  How hard could that be to find a job?

Well I went to the local employment agency who said they can't put me on their books becuase I am not an Australian Citizen (even though I have a wroking visa), so they sent me over to Moruya (the next town along), so I could sign up there.

So I sent my CV in and they asked me to come down.  They basically told me there was no work in the bay whatsoever and I would be better off listening to the local radio for job vacancies.

And it is true.  A population of 16,000 people in the bay and very few of them have a full time job.  Everyone works part time.  There really are no jobs here... what a strange place.  I can't even get a job waitressing, as you need to get a special certificate if they serve alcohol on the premises... it is really frustrating.

So we are just trying to waste time at the moment... oh and it doesn't help that I have run Gary and Roses car into a pile of breeze blocks... that's not going to be cheap to repair!!!!

Well, I feel a million times better now and have sorted myself out a bit.  One of the main problems I think was that most people go travelling when they have either split up with a partner, need a change or things just aren't going right.  I had no reason to leave Huddersfield other than boredom.  I loved my life.  I had a great job, house, social life, I was really happy and then  to take myself away from that and put myself into a situation where I didn't have all those things was just kinda crazy.

Anyway, so Tony has finnished working up in Sydney and has now come down to my gran's house, which was fine until my gran decided she really hated him (for no reason specifically) and threw him out...  I followed.

This was the first argument I have ever had with my Gran, and i am very dissapointed in her.  I have always looked up to my nan and tried to be like her, but now I realise how nasty she can be and I don't like it.  Me and Tony went to stay at the youth hostel in town, and I tried phoning her to sort thiings out.  She just started yelling to me over the phone and would not stop.  She kept saying how he wasn't any good for me and how I was runing my life just being with him (without any concrete evidence of course).  The yelling continued for a few days and I continued to get more and more upset.  My nan used to be the most understanding woman I had ever known.  You could talk to her about anything and she would never judge you.  Now old age has turned her into a very very bitter person, and I am not sure I like what she has turned into.

After a week of arguments we sorted it out.  I told my nan she had to accept Tony in my life if she wanted to see me.  I told her how she used to be a really nice person and now she was really bitter, so she is trying to improve....

Well, me and Tony are fed up with Australia, we have had enough.  We want to leave but the only problem is that Mya is coming over in April.  She is going to try and change her flight so we can meet in Asia instead, we'll have to wait and see what happens...

Well, it was hot and we were able to go to the beach on Christmas day... it was very strange and I don't know ho Santa went on with his sledge as there was definitely no snow!!!  We still enjoyed a proper roast dinner but it didn't feel very Christmassy at all.

It is fairly boring here now.  There is not a lot to do.  I looked thorugh my nan's video collection and the only remotely interesting thing I found was a video called, "Blackpool Illuminations!!"

We went out with Zoe to a 'nightclub'.  Ok, Bateman's Bay doesn't have a nightclub but the bowling club has a night every Friday night for the youngens....  We thought we would give it a go.

It was like a scholl disco, in this big hall with everyone sat around the outside.  We were bored and gobsmacked such places existed.  The best thing we could do was get drunk and maybe forget we were sat in a bowling club. 

"Are you going to the bar, get me a tequilla," said Tony.  I trundelled to the bar and returned promptly.

"You are not going to believe this... they don't sell shots.... or doubles!!"   We left....

It is quiet and peacful here even if there isn't very much to do, but at least I get to listen to my nan's stories.  One sticks in mind in particular....

"I met this Liverpudlian when I was in hospital and he was saying that when he was younger they were short of nothing as everything was stolen or fell off the back of a lorry (for those of you who are not farmiliar with Liverpool, think along the same lines as the TV program Shameless).  He said they never had to pay for anythign and always found ways around things, including free gas and electric, although after a while they were usually caught out.  This one woman though, the gas company new she was fiddling her meter, as the meter would go up but there was never any money in the box.  They never figured it out how she was doing it.  She had made a mould of the coin for the meter, put water in it and then froze it.  When frozen she could put it in the meter and it would register.  It would then melt in the box and drip through a tiny hole she had drilled in the bottom, so there was never any evidence... genius!!!!!!

I have decided to stop writing my blog from day to day and just write to you all when something interesting happens.  We are now in Bateman's Bay, staying with my nan and just chilling out for a bit.  My Uncle Terry, Jill and Olivia were here for a week visiting from Rochdale but have now gone down to see Uncle Colin in Portland.

In Australia at Christmas, every town has Carols by Candlelight (or in some cases carols by bushfire!!).  Everyone sits in a field with a candle and sings carols.  It is very pretty and it made me chuckle when they sung the Aussie version of Jungle bells:

Dashing through the bush
In a rusty Holden Ute
Kicking up the dust
Esky in the boot
Kelpie by my side
Singing Christmas songs
It's summer time and I am in
My singlet, shorts & thongs

 

CHORUS:
OH, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
JINGLE ALL THE WAY
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
ON A SCORCHING SUMMER'S DAY
JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
CHRISTMAS TIME IS BEAUT
OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO RIDE
IN A RUSTY HOLDEN UTE

Engine's getting hot
Dodge the kangaroos
Swaggy climbs aboard
He is welcome too
All the family is there
Sitting by the pool
Christmas day, the Aussie way
By the barbecue!

CHORUS

Come the afternoon
Grandpa has a doze
The kids and uncle Bruce
Are swimming in their clothes
The time comes round to go
We take a family snap
Then pack the car and all shoot through
Before the washing up

CHORUS

Great stuff!!!!!!

Well it is a hard life here, I tell you.  There is nothing to do here but it is good as we are just relaxing.  We walk along the beach, sit by the pool in the sun, go for a swim or go to Bingo with my gran.  We are running out of money but it's ok because we win money at Bingo!!!