The pool is finally finished !!!!!!! Well, ish.

The search for high schools has been made a little bit easier this week as we received a letter to say that Tallulah didn't get a place at Mandurah Catholic College. To be honest with you I was not down hearted. The school has got a very good reputation but it is Catholic which I just don't agree with - I like the curriculum etc but not the religous side at all so it was bottom of my list. Lets hope that she does get an interview and offer with the top two now or I will be gutted !!

The pool was finally finished on Tuesday and, with temps still in the high 30s/40s (it's been the hottest summer for 30 years) the girls have been swimming daily. Nakita has slimmed down (helped by the Dore exercises too I'm sure) and is way fitter now and Tallulah has given up  straightening her hair for the most part so good results all round. We didn't part on good terms at all with the pool co so they have lost quite a bit of business through recommendations as I have a real estate agent mate who was after names of good companies for all her buyers who want pools - luckily for them we have now found a good company, unfortunately it was after we had signed the contract for us !! Still, a very big lesson learnt and, should I ever build anything again, I will continue to research even after I felt I'd researched enough and will not jump in just because of time factors - we signed the contract on 14th March and it was finished on 26th February despite being told we'd be in it for Christmas !! At least we are getting some use of it before closing it down for winter. It is Autumn now officially but still warm luckily. Now we just need to investigate ways of heating the pool so we can get more use out of it and save up the money to finish it off completely (still no pool blanket, aesthetics etc)

Last night we ventured off to the Kelly Clarkson concert - our sixth since arriving 18 months ago ! Finally an old fashioned concert - no costume changes, special effects, pyrotechnics, backing dancers etc, just plain old singing solid for just under an hour and a half and boy could she sing. We had a fabulous time. I just wished we lived closer to Perth so didn't have the hour plus journey home ! No more concerts booked or planned now, so hopefully no one we like will come over until we have replenished our 'going out' fund !

02:52 - Sun 2 March 2008