Hello to the few hardy people that still read,
I must admit it has come a little bit routine compared to the travelogue of last year.
Today was a routine day in some ways frighteningly like a normal working day full of sidetracks and unplanned extra jobs that went on far longer than they were supposed to. Susan started by cleaning four rooms and then under the guidance of Bob "racked off" the 3 containers of apricot wine, emptied the pulp and replaced the wine back into the containers along with some pectin killing enzyme as pectin makes the wine cloudy. We are now collecting wine bottles for the final bottling. After this she went on to some filling and painting work.
I started off watering. Sidetrack 1 dig rings around grevilleas and collect mulch. Newish wheel barrow falling to bits, go to hardware buy fasteners and repair using loctite. Sidetrack 2 sent to rental house to collect lawnmower unwanted by ex tenants to change blades. After much skinning of knuckles old blades finally removed. I did have the fore sight to make sure the mower started before i did this job. It wasn't running very well. Clean air filter, spark plug, change oil, rejig governor spring. Moving the hose at the same time. Then check air filters on other mowers and then them as well. Get part numbers for new springs and plugs. Then go back to moving the hose. Sidetrack 3 collect bicycle from house bring back here to repair. New project to get all bicycles here up to scratch for helpexers to ride.
Just like the real world our 2 o'clock finish became a 5 o'clock one.
Susan had a sauna and spa while I went to town to ring Telstra to change the mobile broadband plan. I know this is going to go wrong as last time I did it, it took them 5 months to get the bill right.
We are failing at three of our resolutions at the moment. Finishing work at 2 and doing touristy things, going to bed at 1030 and getting up early and walking.
We must try harder.
The damp weather returned here tonight with continuous drizzle.
A little bit of trivia. Being further south we actually have around 20 minutes more daylight than Adelaide at the moment. That is of course when it is not cloudy!
Cheers Simon
PS well done Jonathan on getting the Moke on the road
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