So That’s What They Look Like
16 months of trying and at last I’m happy to introduce to you……the fence.
Yes, we still need to do down the side of the house and the back corner needs work, but stop looking at that. Look at the fence!
Do Fence Me In
The last of our initial building works starts today. What, I hear you ask, I thought you’d been in that house for ages. Yes, we have been but there is still no fence between us and our lovely next door neighbours. For 15 months now we’ve walked out our back door and looked in to their back yard. Only once have I been sprung in my pj’s, but that’s once too much.
We actually started trying to get the fence built four months before we moved in but the $#^$$()# builder next door was building the house on spec and kept on stalling, obviously trying to pass the cost on to whomever purchased the property. The very week we were off to court to get him to pay up he sold the house. Since then both of us have tried countless times to get someone to come and quote. If they said they’d come, they never turned up. We’d all but given up until a couple of weeks ago when thanks to problems one land owner was having further up the street we got a contact and that contact is due to turn up today to put the poles in.
I may be counting my fence posts before they hatch as they haven’t arrived yet but I’ve had two calls this morning to confirm I’ll be home (as if I ever leave!) so my hopes are high that before too long our block will truly be our block.
Save 6 Music
This may be the first time in my life I wish I was a Brit instead of an Aussie; I wish there was something I could do to help save the best radio station in the world.
Hey!
Hey! I just realised that on a recent trip to the home of the current holder of The Worlds Ugliest Trophy that I didn’t see it proudly on display underneath the telly.
Footy tipping is coming…
Enough Already
In the past two months I’ve had to replace a monitor, a mouse, a modem/router, a network card, a skype phone and now I have to get a new sound card. Come on computer gods, gimme a break. The worse thing is that after last week’s stunning Big Love episode we haven’t been able to watch the latest ep. It’s sitting there, waiting. If I can’t get a new card tody we may have to resort to watching it on a laptop.
Wanted : One Shopping Centre
Argh. You know it’s going to be a bad day when, amongst other things, you don’t have enough milk for breakfast, or perhaps more importantly for my coffee. The thing is that for most people this isn’t a problem, pop around to the milk bar and grab some to tide you over before shopping. Great idea but when you live on a new estate there ain’t no such thing as a milk bar which means to go and grab a quick tide-me-over is more like a military operation than a nice stroll. It involves locking up the house, getting three kids inside a car, driving to the supermarket, getting three kids out of the car, traipsing three kids through a supermarket for one container of milk, getting three kids back in to the car, driving home and then finally be I’d able to have breakfast or make a coffee. Thirty minutes minimum.
A shopping centre is being built just a few minutes walk away, but it would have to be the slowest construction of shops on record. So while I wait for them to finish I’m going to have sit here and contemplate having a black tea. As I said, it’s not going to be a good day.
Curse You (+61)3
Grrrrrrr. Looks like 3 have changed the way they display incoming phone numbers on their system. When I was with Optus they used the full number with country code (+61411 etc). When I moved to 3 they didn’t have the +61 and just started the number with 0 so I went through and changed all the phone numbers in my contacts so names would display correctly. A week ago 3 changed their message system and it looks like they changed the numbers then too so this morning I had to sit and go through my contacts again changing them all back. I really need to get a phone I can easily sync with my Google contacts. Anybody need a web site? Will work for an iPhone.
Mobile Users
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