'In tent' on reaching Jerrys Plains.

So....we set off for Canberra about 11 ish after completely messing up our new lounge area by filling it with the bed so that I could paint the floor in the bedroom area. It was a good chance to do it as the paint is so fumy!We headed south via Tenterfield, Glen Innes, Guyra, Armidale, Tamworth and Muswellbrook, passing strange places like Mother of Ducks Lagoon, Tilbuster Ponds, Willgoose Rd, Beardy Waters, Bolivia, Aberdeen, Llangothlen and Moonbi. We stopped at Moonbi Lookout to look out across the Upper Hunter Valley, a big (race)horse breeding area. We passed 'Burning Mountain'....a hill with a coal seam about 100 ft below the surface that has been on fire, according to scientists, for the last 6000 years! It moves southwards a metre a year. I want to call and see it on the way back.We are nearly half way to Canberra, about 2 hours from Sydney camped in a place called Jerrys Plains...no it doesn't have an apostrophe....We are in our new £30 4 man tent from Aldi....with a damn mosquito that has already feasted upon my left buttock! (Will has just killed it and now there is a smear of buttock blood on our new tent wall!)We had our tea in the Jerrys Plains Tavern...a man haunt....no wives seem to venture there...but to be honest the men that haunted it probably don't have wives... I doubt any woman would be stupid enough to tie themselves to any of the men there.Will reckons they are all probably lesbians anyway.We had two T-bone steaks."Do you want any sauce with those?" Asked the barman."Oh, what sauces do you have?" Asked Will, expecting ' mushroom' 'peppercorn' or 'Diane.'"Gravy," said the barman.To be fair the steaks were huge if a little gristly but the chips were great and they were only £10 each.Rain is expected...I hope this Aldi tent is waterproof.... Oh, and we forgot pillows so I am going to have to sleep on a 'hard' pillow of my clothes and a towel.It just goes to show that life in Australia is not all beaches and sun...it can be quite challenging.