Friday 3rd February - Back from Gayndah

Apologies for no blog all week, we have been in Gayndah (ie. the middle of nowhere) and the internet was a little bit rubbish and Gaz was hogging it (jokes).

I was working in a dental surgery as the only dentist for the area which meant i was dealing with a lot of tooth ache appointments and doing a lot of tooth extractions. Gandah was an interesting place - the main street being a bit like one of those streets with the old saloon on in a western film. The main street had a lot of shops that had closed down and one little supermarket...2 very old looking pubs and umm...not much else. The house we were put up in was a 4 bedroom house (apparently the same house adam and gemma stayed in when they also had to work at gayndah clinic). We went up sunday night (just incase it was raining on monday as the roads would be too flooded to get there) only the air con wasn't working so we were boiling hot! We ordered a chinese from the chinese takeaway but it was a below average meal. The next day i had to go to work (luckily the clinic is only up the road). The nurses were lovely and were very surprised to hear the air con was broken. The next door neighbour has been getting annoyed at the sound of the air con fans outside the house as they back onto where his lounge is so he takes it upon himself to turn the air con off for the dental house from the mains in the garden. He's a grumpy old sod apparently. Anyway, i directed gaz to the mains and he was able to switch it on and get it working again....so we had the air con running non-stop 24/7 all week...that would have pleased the old man next door!

The patients were very polite and really appreciative of the work i was doing for them and on wednesday i went to munduberra clinic for the day to an even more remote part of queensland. I enjoyed the day there.

Gaz and i went to get a takeaway last night from the fish and chip shop. As Gaz doesn't like fish, he wanted a burger...despite all this meaty food advertised not he board such as sausages, burgers, pies etc. the place didn't have anything left in stock other than fish and chips. We therefore went next door to a 'bistro' which was a rough as guts pub with a takeaway dinner. We sat and had a drink in the bar between a grumpy looking old man to our right who kept staring at us and a very angry old man to our left, swearing and blinding next to me about something on the tv. The bar man was rough too....gaz said i couldn't have looked more out of place in my work uniform and my queensland health tshirt on with a big yellow smiley face with the slogan 'healthy teeth are happy teeth :D'. We weren't long in the bar before leaving. Looking out how grotty the place was, we were tempted to bin the food and buy some fresh stuff elsewhere but it didn't look too bad...ignorance is bliss!

Today was my last day in work and i was happy to finish there. It was a little bit too remote for my liking. Gaz came with me to keep me company but he was bored in the house...we watched lot of films and television as thats about all there was to do!

To our horror, when we got home, the garage door was wide open, giving everyone free access to the whole of our house. I thought gaz was joking at first when he said the door had been left open, he's joked about it before...but no, this time he was serious. We ran inside expecting to see all our belongings gone...but nope...everything was as we left it. We had been gone all week and no one had stepped into our house...everything as we had left it. We feel so lucky right now!!!

Its nice to be back in hervey bay.