Update [Scanned]

Well, it’s cyclone watch again - Hamish this time.  Graham was really disappointed that we didn’t have Ellie and Graham both in the same year…   I haven’t blogged much, I know, a little because there’s a lot of stuff going on and there are some things that I don’t want to blog about but mostly I’m just lazy, and I only have access to t’internet through work.  Grr.   Anyway, we’re doing ok and while we love our house, we realise that just before a world recession wasn’t exactly the best time to be a first home buyer!  Still, we’re making extra payments as much as we can at the moment just to get the mortgage down a bit and let’s face it, the less interest we pay in the long run, the better.  We have the threat lurking on the horizon that one of us may lose our job in the next year or so but it doesn’t do to dwell on something that may or may not happen, that way leads to heart attacks.  Que Sera Sera as they say.  Mind you, that’s not to say we’re not saving as much as we can.  Just in case.  And if disaster doesn’t strike, we’ll buy a boat.   You’ll all be glad to hear, I’m sure, that the fish are doing ok.  We had a little spate of deaths of the barbs because the water acid balance shifted when Graham got his wish and got 3 more barra but I’ve rescued two and they’re in a new small tank which the old owners of our house left behind.  Yes people, forget about cars, we are now a 2 fish tank home.  No more angels have disappeared (touch wood!) and the yabbie is doing well.   Our house is still as lovely as it was when we bought it but I think the honeymoon phase is over.  No longer do I think that it is absolutely perfect and those little things that you seem to gloss over when you’re first in love are starting to niggle, just a little bit.  For instance, the previous owners made a big thing about how they’d repainted recently and retiled it and put in new fans and light fittings and everything.  Which is great.  Only they only used one coat of paint on the wooden surfaces so you can see the previous beige-ish colour underneath.  They’ve also obviously grabbed at a couple of not quite dry painted doors within dirty fingers, judging by the finger marks.   For 3 months now, when we go to be, one of us has gone up, turned on either the spare bedroom or the bathroom light and then the other has turned off the lights downstairs.  We put up with this until last weekend because we were really not bothered enough to replace the bulb in the landing light.  We now put up with it because it doesn’t matter which lightswitch you use, the light does not go off so we unreplaced it and went back to the old system.  I think that one may need an electrician.   The upstairs toilet leaks only a little, but constantly and the seal around the cistern is not the best.  Thankfully the floor is tiled.   Also thankfully the large spider in the bathroom vent died.  Now I just have to persuade my husband to remove the corpse…   Other than that, life continues very well J