Knackered

Peak trade for me is finally over and I have partied my last Body Shop party this year. I have done extremely well this last year and the last couple of months have funded Christmas among other things  which has helped ease the burden. The next party I have booked is 12th January so I get a whole month off and am going to use it wisely !!!

Last night our next door neighbours invited the street round for drinks. Only 5 houses went but it was great to finally meet people and talk to them as opposed to just waving from a distance. We discovered that a house two doors up which went on the market for $1.27m on Thursday sold the same day for $1.26m which is great news (our house isn't even worth half that but it's good to know that if we complete the plans we have we should more than make our money back), we also found out that a neighbour was born in Bristol but her parents left as 10 pound poms, they have a daughter just a year older than Tallulah so, I'm hoping, they'll become good buddies over the hols and another neighbour has offered to take us out on their boat to see the Christmas lights on the canal homes. Great to put names to faces at long last and it's starting to feel like our old street in Juniper Way.

Mutley has been in the wars yet again, this time with his tail. I have no idea what he has done and whether he has a lump on it or a dent in it and he won't let you near as he's such a wuss. There's no way I can pay the arm and leg again just to have him sedated so they can look and he has started to gently wag it again today so I hope it's on the mend. He decided to snap his harness this morning when out on his walk, as he chased another dog, so I had to carry him back as he wouldn't walk and I had no way of making  him. He's such a lump ! It didn't help that he kept trying to lick my face and the flies were horrendous today - so far I'm one of the few not to have swallowed one. Unfortunately it's not quite hot enough yet to kill them, shame, so they'll be back as bad as ever tomorrow. It's horrible how you adjust to being covered in flies and, so long as they aren't all over my face, I manage to put up with them. Yuck.

09:20 - Mon 10 December 2007