We have............. a toilet!

The impossible has happened, we finally have a toilet.

And like all impossible things, it actually turned out to be quite easy.
I think Aidan's sudden need to have a toilet has to do with a potential camping date he's organised with another family next weekend, but I am not complaining, being the only one in our family who doesn't stand to relieve themselves I think it's long overdue!
It was always going to have to be a composting toilet, we don't have water connected to it and we can't have a septic tank, so essentially we have a thunder box. It's a wooden box with a toilet seat over a bucket.  Sitting beside it is a metal bucket which will be filled with sawdust to scatter a scoop over what ever gets deposited in the bucket. It may sound primitive, and possibly horrifying to some people, but when we've been without a toilet all this time, it is the ultimate luxury.
From all accounts they don't smell, which we believe, despite the fact it is a short distance from the container.  Like all things at Mia Mia, where it was put had a lot to do with the ground.  While we didn't have to dig, our first choice was directly behind the container, but the uneven ground in between might have been too dangerous for a late night visit.
We (the royal we, mainly Aidan) laid a slab, then he and his dad put together a kit shed which Aidan dynabolted to the slab.  It looks like a council toilet, but we think it's fantastic.
It turns out the hardest part about assembling the toilet is finding sawdust.  Which we are yet to do...  There are no convenient saw mills near by, and the hardware/garden supply places we've visited don't have it.
There are alternatives which we can use, like shredded paper, pine needles, dry grass clippings etc.  It is exactly like the compost bin, needing to have an even mix of wet and dry materials, but sawdust is best because the bucket won't fill up too quickly. 
Also with the kind help of Tony, Aidan's dad, we finally turned the cubby around 180 degrees so we can see they boys playing from the container.  It was amazing to watch the two of them poke poles under it and lever it around, and thank goodness it's done.  It has been on the to do list for far too long.  Now we have to put up a shade sale and a proper sandpit, so the boys stop trying to dig up the crusher dust with their diggers.
2 huge jobs were accomplished, and with the cutting of the grass it looks like a completely different property. I just looked back to another blog entry a couple of months back to see how green everything was, you would not believe the difference.  Then again in Winter it will be back to the same lush green we saw when we first bought it.  What an amazing place.