The weather has finally changed

The last week we have had quite a bit of rain (still doesn't stop some people having their retic on watering their gardens!) and wind. The house Paul was building fell over so he had to redo it and I don't hold out much hope for it still standing tomorrow when he goes to work ! Despite this it is still fairly warm (in the late teens) and the rain does stop and the sun shines brightly most days. My roses need to be pruned back but they are still in full bloom so I don't want to and the narcissi are out and looking lovely, they obviously don't know that it's mid winter.

Not much is happening now, next week is the last week of term (it'll be the 11th straight week of school too !) and we all really need the holidays for a lie in, almost every night seems to be a late one and every morning an early one. I held my last Body Shop party on Friday and I now have no more booked in. I have tried everything to get people to host a party, flyers around houses, posters up, catalogues into both primary schools etc but haven't heard a thing. Lots of people said that they wanted one, but have not followed through so I am now jobless. Fingers crossed someone nice takes pity on me soon.

The girls' school reports are out next week and I am hoping for good things but you never know. They are both very happy though so that's the main thing and they are learning. Tallulah is off on Friday to plant some native trees in the community and then, in August, she has a trip to Fremantle to visit the round prison and boat museum. Paul and I found both of these fascinating but I can't see Tallulah being interested. Still, it's a day out of school for her and a chance to chat to her mates all day !!

My friends back in the UK have all been off to Cedar Falls (the health spa we went to annually) this weekend and I thought I'd find that tough, but I haven't, so I must be more settled here now. I counted up that it's 33 weeks until my 40th so not enough time for Paul to save for me to go to Las Vegas (which I really want to do), we should have done it from the UK as would have been much cheaper. I have thrown lots of ideas at him about things to do but, no doubt, he'll leave it until the last minute and then not be able to sort out anything and we'll end up at the McDonalds like last year !! I have informed him that, should that happen again, divorce is on the cards !! Not good at 'thinking' or 'organizing' my hubby.

Paul is cracking on with the house, he has put in a door and bricked up above it so it's not quite so open plan, but is struggling to match the colour of the cement as the previous builders used cream but hadn't cleaned out their mix form the grey so it's a 'dirty' cream !! So he had to dig it all out and start again as it was too grey and this last lot is too cream so looks like he'll have to do it again, poor thing. The work is very, very slow as he only has weekends and still does his daily trip  to Bunnings so ends up with only two afternoons . I don't mind as long as he is doing it and not glued to the telly !

Oh well, time to get off. It's 'home open' time soon - where people who are selling their houses open the doors for 45 mins on a weekend and you just walk in and have a nose. Debbie is looking at houses as well as my friend Jill, so at least I'm no longer being nosey and am legitimately looking, if not for me.

02:55 - Sun 1 July 2007