Yellow lines

Well it's been a while since I've been on so I thought I'd better let you all know that we are still alive and kicking !!

The pool saga continues but at least work has progressed somewhat. Paul has been working all day then spending all evening and every weekend on it and it is in the final stages, just the fencing (which is all ready just waiting for a date that they'll fit it), the quartzite (guy is coming to have a nose to work out how much quartzite he'll need and is then telling us when he can do it) then all the lights, pump etc can be fitted before the water goes in and then it's just a case of waiting for the gubbins to do their job before we can throw ourselves in. Boy do we need it, 35 degrees today and no breeze so very sticky and it's supposed to be hotter tomorrow. The dog hasn't even been able to raise his head at all he's so hot, bless.

A bit of excitement last night, the kids hadn't been long in bed when Nakita comes out (forever the drama queen!) complaining that she couldn't sleep because she heard a gun shot. Paul explained that it's just the zapper killing all the mozzies who now have a permanent home in our concrete hole. Next is a siren, then another and another and more. I thought it was on the telly and Paul was snoring so didn't hear it.
Then it's the helicopter complete with search light and it's right over our house. Argh !!  The chopper landed and the end of our road and was there for at least half an hour before taking off again. Today, when we went out, there's just lots of luminous yellow lines and arrows but no one is any the wiser as to what happened !! It was a real reminder of the UK, especially when we lived in Broad Croft, as it was a standard thing every weekend, it took this for us to notice that the siren noise is barely around here.

Building work in Peel has now come to a stand still so Paul is officially unemployed - never very good for someone is self employed. He's confident that he'll get something though so is now out on the campaign trail searching for work. I think the hold up is with the council approving planning and there'll be a lot of guys out of work in the area as they won't be prepared to travel. So many blocks have been sold and there are building sites everywhere but no work because some dipstick doesn't realise that their actions actually cost people their livelihoods. Oh well, lets hope it's a short term blip (it had better be we haven't got any savings !) and I'll have better news next week.

Oh well, back to the ironing.

10:00 - Sun 11 November 2007