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Until now we have had FiFo miners, FiFo families and even FiFo wives with the latest development according to Erin Laurance, being the FiFo grandparents. And the logical extension to the FiFo phenomenon, of which there is a reported 50,000 people in Western Australia into FiFo jobs, is the DiDo or drive-in drive-out workers and grandparents.
For grandparents seeking an unsurpassed, top flight lifestyle, towing a donga on wheels and parking in a caravan park on the wrong side of the tracks, provides neither a king-size bed, room service, Sky News and peerless en-suite facilities. So it is with some reluctance that grandma and grandpa have taken up the FiFo option, becoming more like FiFiFo aficionados’. (Forever Into Fly-In Fly-out)
But unlike Fly-in fly-out employment which can put stress on family relationships, Grandparent FiFo brings the benefits of forward planning of school holiday child-minding duties, dinner gatherings and celebratory occasions such as birthdays and the like.
In the recent past DiDo been mingled with the GP FiFo, either taking on a motor-home relocation or getting the new Falcon G6 out of the ‘lock and leave’ facility in Winthrop and driving for a couple of days in order to actually exit this vast state of ours and onto the Adelaide Hills and nearby eastern states destinations.
Secretly however, grandma and grandpa are genuine devotees of SiSo (ship-in ship-out) racking up something like 150 nights on Princess cruise vessels and earning platinum status into the bargain. Platinum enables you to leave your shoes outside the door in the evening and or to receive free satellite Wi-Fi so that you can sit up in bed in the morning and read the papers on your iPad
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