Day 126 Nubeena Wednesday 1st June 2011

Hi Folks,
First day of winter and a glorious sunny day. To get an idea of the temperatures here I have installed a max/min thermometer outside the door. When I say installed it's hanging on a piece of string from the unit number. Anyway last night the minimum was 3 and today the maximum was around 19 ignoring the silly numbers generated early in the day when the sun was directly on it.
The day was uneventful until this evening when I went to the spa. It was 'orrible and cloudy. An hour and a half later I did have a spa after skimming a heap of foam off, adding a slug dose of chlorine and some "Pool Kleer". Will leave it on overnight and be interested to see what it looks like tomorrow.
Today's amusement occurred when I was up on the roof cleaning the gutter. I meandered over to the kitchen extraction fan as I never checked it's power use when I was doing the energy survey. Peering over the edge of the flue I could hear the voices of the girls working in the kitchen quite clearly. I laughed maniacally into the flue until they heard me. "This is god speaking" I boomed. They did not believe me as they had seen me up on the roof earlier otherwise I might have carried it off. "God can we have the rest of the day off?" requested the voices floating up the flue. "I'm sorry I replied you will have to ask Susan she tells god what to do." This was followed by much laughter.
The second amusement was late in the afternoon when I was sitting talking to our helper from Taiwan Fan Fan or to give her her correct name Yu-hong Fan. She was investigating the intricacies of the English language. We talked around several subjects and got onto manners and etiquette and how a word can have a totally different meaning depending on the way it is said. She related when she and her partner worked at the Primo pig abbatoir at Port Wakefield SA. She said the workers there said said "fuck" a lot. On her first day she asked for something and someone threw it to her. She thought she was being attacked! Language and events totally foreign to her working life in Taiwan. She is qualified as a nurse and a biology teacher. Anyway it was an interesting and funny conversation.

Day off tomorrow!
Night Folks

cheers Simon