Its been an interesting few days, I went to the country on the weekend, I lit a fire in a few paddocks, and watched them burn. Mark has been at his parents house, on holidays from work.

He has been in Echuca for a few months, working hard at a new job and new position. He has gradually becomming more and more unhappy with it, being so far from friends and family, and me, and the managers at work he is just not getting along with. Sunday he woke up and decided he had had enough. He went to the doctor, and the doctor said he was suffering from stress and depression, and needed to get out of the environment that is making him sick. I rang him monday night while I was on a break from work, and he said he needed me, so I left work sick and drove the two hours to the farm.

He is in the process of getting work transferred to Melbourne to see if a change of scene is all he needs. He went to Echuca with so much promise, and it only takes one or two people to screw that up. If Safeway doesn't work out, maybe he could get his flying licence, do a uni degree, apply for a business job somewhere in the city. There are so many possibilities.