Daily Archives: 2012-07-05

No rain, mild and sunny in the morning. The surface flooding disappeared overnight.

Neville and sidekick arrived around 8:30am and marked where the water had come to on the new drive. They’ll be back when it dries out to add some gravel and compact it – no more than a mornings work at most. They are only increasing the height of the driveway, not the pooling areas under the big oak. I said that’ll be for Karola to manage when she returns.

I called Anna last night and she affirmed that Karola is OK – had taken the boys out to see a school play.

Rang Mary – Gill was there too as expected and she helped me untangle the issues with Mary’s sending of e-mail. It all finally seemed to be a matter of Telecom silently changing some rules for e-mail addressing which stopped Mary’s stuff working. Today when we tried to send an e-mail we got an error message and an e-mail from Telecom explaining what had changed. Well, everything was working – sending and receiving emails – when Gill left this afternoon.

Finally finished Karola’s GST for April and May – and they owe us a nice fat refund.

I’ve offered Gill and Ben my current (generation 1) AppleTV and Gill thinks it could be useful – it plays music, sound, and videos on your TV – which usually has a bigger screen than your computer. The things to play via AppleTV must be known to iTunes which can be a nuisance. I am upgrading to generation 3 in order to be able to mirror my computer screen on the TV downstairs, hence the spare generation 1 AppleTV.

I’ve run out of suitably sized firewood so today cut up 8 bags of apple wood. Our well-seasoned apple wood burns well, cleanly and brightly, if a little too quickly, and smells nice too.

After I groomed Bramble she decided there was an interloper in with the sheep and we went to investigate without me replacing her collar. When I called her to come and have it put on – she’s usually very good about that – she rushed over and pulled the collar out of my habd, thinking to have a game. So, for now, we’ve lost the little identity disc from her collar; I hope daylight will help us discover it again.

Food: (I will stop this when Karola agrees I am not starving myself, despite her much regretted absence) – breakfast then breakfast again. Cold roast pork and tomato on toast for lunch; more beef schnitzel with fried onion and carrot and potato mash for dinner.

Oak Avenue Weather:9℃—15℃ 9.7mm rain [80.3]