20181222 – Saturday – Off to Port Elliott

20181222 – Saturday – Off to Port Elliott

At last I am on the road again.

I have had my trailer insulated.

I have had a cover made for my solar charged battery.

I have my bed newly made with  brand new duna  and new sheets and pillow slips.

And here I am sitting sideways across my bed in my trailer with my little desk on my lap, and I am writing up my diary.

My trailer is simply beautiful.

I drove to Port Elliott yesterday morning after Jeff came up with me to the service station and pumped up all my tyres.

I dropped him off back at his house and then I was on my way.

It was a beautiful day, overcast, but beautiful.

I drove on the road to Victor, but just before I left South Road to drive up the hill, I began to feel rather weak, and I could tell that my sugar level was low

I had packed my breakfast so I stopped by the side of the road and ate a couple of boiled eggs and an avocado and tomato.

I could feel my sugar levels rising sufficiently, so I was on my way again.

I arrived at the show grounds at Port Elliott and rang the number of he caretaker on the gate.

She wasn’t on site, but she told me where to park and said she would catch up with me in an hour or so.

She told me the cost would be $15 per night for an unpowered site and $25 for a powered site.

I asked her if the sites were likely to be booked out over Xmas.

She said that there are always unpowered sites available no matter how busy it got and the cost is always $15 per night.

I think the Showgrounds is so much better than caravan parks because there is so much room, and with my set up I can just drive in and out if I choose, or unhitch my trailer and be free to drive around the town without my trailer if I feel like it.

Well, this is the first time since I have been driving with my trailer that I have been able to unhitch and hitch my trailer all by myself!!

Since I have had the automatic jockey wheel removed and a smaller non-automated one installed and Steve J has strengthened my towbar, everything is manageable just by me now.

So I parked my trailer and unhitched it from my car, and went for a drive around the town.

The sky was no longer overcast by now and the sea was a brilliant blue.

Small islands dotted the bay and everything was so BEAUTIFUL.

When eventually I was convinced I had seen all of the beautiful sights at Port Elliott, it was around 2 pm in the afternoon.

I felt hungry again, so I drove to a chicken place in the Main Street and purchased chicken and vegetables. 

I sat in the shop and ate half of my meal, and left the other half for dinner, later in the day.

I still had food in my little esky, so I knew I would be okay for food overnight if I needed it, and I had a container of nuts to eat, also if I needed it.

I drove back the the Showgrounds and decided to climb into my trailer for a nap.

This was he first time I had been in my trailer with my new insulation.

It was simply LOVELY in my trailer. I closed up the zippers of the entry flap and surveyed “my world.” 

Because of the newly installed insulation, the temperature within my trailer was even and pleasant.

And with the insulation, my duna was all I needed to cover me. In fact it was a little too warm, so I took my blue cotton blanket, given to me by Ingrid and Ari Ryan earlier that year, and that was all I needed to cover me.

No more 4 or 5 blankets to get tied up in, just 1 cotton blanket and 1 duna needed.

Previously even if I was warm under my blankets in cold weather, the air in my trailer would be cold around my face, but now it was just a perfect even temperature.

This made me so happy.

I eventually ate my dinner, the chicken and vegetables and settled down to sleep.

My solar panel was working perfectly so my phone and my ipad soon became fully charged.

I watched a video for a short while and then turned it off to go to sleep.

I slept until midnight and then sat out on my tailgate and enjoyed the coolness of the night for a while, until I felt sleepy again and swung myself back into my “cocoon,” and went to sleep and woke up at around 7.30 am.

Soon, I will hitch my trailer back onto my car and return to Adelaide, satisfied that everything works for my next real trip in the first week of January to visit my daughter in Melbourne.

I thanked God for all my blessings and thanked my Dad once again for making my trailer for me over 30 years ago.

I am so happy.

20181223 – Sunday – South Adelaide

This morning was beautiful. 

The exhort was given by John Eakins and I always enjoy his talks.

I  was not disappointed and to make it even better the pianist was Joseph Cheek.

He is simply a brilliant musician, and whenever he he’s playing the piano you know you are in for a real treat.

He can make any piano sing.

After the meeting I went to the reserve near Seacliff where my friend Nina M was having a family picnic.

I met my old friend Max S there with her dog, and also met a new friend of Nina’s named Andrea.

She works from home on her computer for a winery in the Barossa valley and her husband stays home and minds their 2 children.

She was a most interesting person.

I stayed there for a couple of hours and then went home for a well-needed afternoon nap.

This will be a quiet Xmas for me because I will be going interstate to Melbourne for the 1st week in January and not doing much in between.

Today, Monday 24th December 2018, I had a fright this morning because I could not find my purse. 

I remembered that I had it when I had purchased some dried fruit from a stall at a Service Station and did not remember what I had done with it from then.

Eventually my memory kicked in and I remembered that I had put it in the glove box of my car “for safe-keeping.” 

It was such a relief to find it there.

Then I found I had locked myself out of my unit and the key was inside, so I had to ring Jeff to come and rescue me.

Back safely in my unit, I decided I would go for a drive to see if Inc cafe was open.

It was not, so I ended up at the cafe on the corner of Repton Road and the Esplanade at Somerton Park at the little cafe there.

I purchased a flat white and then found that all the tables under the umbrellas already had people sitting at them.

A couple asked me to share theirs and so I did.

They told me they were American and came from New York.

Their mother lived locally here in Adelaide and they were here to get her installed in a nursing home.

There names were Neil and Nicole and they had four sons.

They said they loved living in New York.

They lived about 30 k outside of New York and it was a rural area where they lived.

They had 3 acres of land on their house block and they said they felt perfectly safe there and never needed to worry about locking their doors.

It was soon time for them to leave, and so I had met some more friends who I would probably never meet again, but who had touched my life, and I theirs, even if only briefly.

The sea is simply beautiful today, it is a network of blue and white channels where the depth of the water changes the colour of the sea.

This is such a beautiful country, and I love it so much.

 

My diet for the last week.

Friday 14th Dec 2018

Wakeup at 8.00 am

Went to Inc cafe

Breakfast fish avo  date grapes 

Lunch  fish avo tomato  few grapes 1 date

4.33 pm at 13.3 sugar level

20 lantus

20 Novarapid

2 chops

Fish

Nuts

9.44 pm at 6,6 sugar level

Bed time 9.42 pm

Saturday 15th Dec 2018

Bedtime 9.49 pm

Wake up at 8.34 am at 11. 7 sugar level

20 Lantus 

20 Novarapid 

Weight 64 kg

Breakfast

2eggs avocado curry powder 

Lunch

 Fisk tomato cucumber grapes 1 Date spinach leaves

Dinner

2 chops 

2 eggs tomato spinach coconut water and Maca

2.30 pm at 12.00 sugar lev

10 Lantus 

10 Novarapid

5.09 pm at 4.7 sugar level

Slice water melon 

Few grapes 

Chorizo 

 Coconut water and chia

8.44 pm at 8.8 sugar level

Bedtime at 8.44 pm 

Sunday 16th Dec 2028

 

Bedtime at 8.48 pm

11.22 am at 12.4 sugar level

20 lant20 Novarapid

Wake up time at 6.14 am 

6.24 am at 8.1 sugar level 

Went to South before having breakfast

Lunch at Dangerfield’s

Mixed salad and salmon. Beef and chicken

Fruit and Tirasamu 

Home 

Steak tomato and Avocado

Few grapes slice of watermelon

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid

9.17 pm at 10.3 sugar level

10 Novarapid

Dark chocolate

Bed time 9.30

Monday 17th Dec 20186.22 am at 15.2 sugar level 

Sugar level high after all wrong thins I ate at Dangerfield’s 

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid

I had diarreah after eating chocolate last night

9.21 am at 7.6 sugar level

Breakfast sardines and chorizo 

Sardines  sardines nuts watermelom

Berries

6.22 pm at 11.9 sugar level 

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid

2 eggs avocado curried

Chia and coconut milk lsa

Fish

9.06 pm at7.2 sugar level

Bedtime at 9.06

Tuesday 18th  December 2028

2.13 am at 10 2 sugar level

10 Lantus

10 Novarapid 

8.30 am at 6.7 sugar level

Weight 95.6 kg

Breakfast 2 eggs avo tomato mushrooms grapes 

2.51 pm at 13.3 sugar level

10 Lantus 

10 Novarapid

9.38 pm at Sugar level 11.00

10 Lantus

10 Novarapid 

Steak tomato and mushrooms

Bed time 10 pm

Wednesday Dec 19 th 2018

5.39 am at 13.8 sugar level

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid

12.24 pm at 8.3 Sugar level 

lunch Sardines avo tomato cucumber mushrooms

Dinner soup fruit 

1136 pm at 12.3 sugar level

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid 

Bedtime Midnight

Thursday dec 20

2018

Bedtime at midnight

3.29 pm at 8.8 sugar level.

6.31 am at 10.3 sugar level

20 lantus

20 Novarapid

breakfast

Steak and tomato

11.27 am at 8.6 sugar level

4.03 pm Lunch 2 curried eggs and tomato grapes chia and maca and lsa and coconut water

Dinner chicken 1chop tomato avocado grapes

Chia maca coconut water and lsa

13.3 sugar level

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid

Bed time 12 pm

Friday 21 Dec 2018

Wake up time 5.23 am

8.23 am at 8.3 sugar level

Weight 96.1

Thursday dec 20

2018

Bedtime at midnight

3.29 pm at 8.8 sugar level.

6.31 am at 10.3 sugar level

20 lantus

20 Novarapid

breakfast

Steak and tomato

11.27 am at 8.6 sugar level

4.03 pm Lunch 2 curried eggs and tomato grapes chia and maca and lsa and coconut water

Dinner chicken 1chop tomato avocado grapes

Chia maca coconut water and lsa

13.3 sugar level

20 Lantus

20 Novarapid

Bed time 12 pm