Last night I fell asleep to the sound of gunfire and dogs barking. The gunfire was a distance away so didn’t bother me so much, the dogs barking were next door.

There’s some good news and some bad news today. We’ll start with the bad news.

The compressor on the vans air conditioner has broken and they can’t find a replacement part. And even if we manage to find a replacement, it’s going to cost at least $500 in labour to fix.

The good news is, they didn’t charge us to tell us this. Also, we’ve not seen any more scorpions.

I am slowly trawling through all my footage trying to make it into videos. Mike is slowly making progress on the van. He’s putting some curtains up and fixed all the doors that keep swinging open while we are driving. Kevin fell over in the heat and his nose fell off, so Mike has fixed that. You’ll meet Kevin soon in our videos.

We still need to mount some solar panels, and also cover our toilet with something as it’s creepy preparing food so close to the loo, especially since it started smelling. I really want to put a composting toilet in, but they are ridiculously expensive. So we went to Home Depot, the US equivalent to Bunnings, and bought the bits and pieces we need to make a table over the loo. I also bought some spider and scorpion spray and tomorrow we will give our van a really good spray while we’re not living in it.

Everyone down South calls me Ma’am and I really don’t like it. At first I hated it so much I almost asked someone to stop calling me that. But I’m getting used to it now, and have downgraded from hating it to not liking it. But, it’s how they do things down south. Mike gets called Sir. I think he quite likes it.

The cleaner comes tomorrow morning, so tonight will be spent cleaning the house before the cleaner gets here.