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Prepping dinner for tonight, listening to 6 Music and watching the kids play buses when I hear Bert say “No Moo Moo, that’s not the GPS, this is.”

I asked him what a GPS does as I’m pretty sure he’s never seen one before and he told me “it tells you the direction to go in”.

Oh boy, do I feel old. Apparently he learnt about it on Play School.

“There’s a bear in there. Recalculating. There is a bear back there.”

Almost 15 months after the it was chock-a-block with the contents of our house we can finally fit two cars in to our garage. Rae was moving the black car in as I was leaving to do some shopping when the thought struck her that there really wasn’t that much work required to give us room for both cars. Two hours later and here is the result.

If you want something organised, get an (ex)librarian to do it.

It’s a bit of tight squeeze now but once we get out little shed out the back and we can move the mower and wheel barrow we’ll have oodles of room. Thanks to Rae’s great job both cars are now protected from the elements and we have space for visitors to park. What a job, what a gal.

It’s that time of the year, the final free weekend until September (for me) and October (for Rae). Deck is done, garage being cleaned out, garden as good as it will get all in preparation for season 2010.

So this can mean only one thing – footy tipping is back! Yes, The Tony Malloy Memorial Footy Tipping Competition®™ which features The Ugliest Trophy In The World®™ is back for its, um, let’s see, that would be, manyith time so join up and give it everything you’ve got for the trophy. Just head to http://www.footytips.com.au/comps/TonysT to join Tony’s Tipping (wish I had have called it something better, maybe Show Us Ya Tips) to be in the running and to get your invite to Derrimut’s social event of the year. Don’t know anything about footy? You’ll probably win. Maybe this year Nigel, maybe this year.

16 months of trying and at last I’m happy to introduce to you……the fence.

Yes, we still need to do down the side of the house and the back corner needs work, but stop looking at that. Look at the fence!

The last of our initial building works starts today. What, I hear you ask, I thought you’d been in that house for ages. Yes, we have been but there is still no fence between us and our lovely next door neighbours. For 15 months now we’ve walked out our back door and looked in to their back yard. Only once have I been sprung in my pj’s, but that’s once too much.

We actually started trying to get the fence built four months before we moved in but the $#^$$()# builder next door was building the house on spec and kept on stalling, obviously trying to pass the cost on to whomever purchased the property. The very week we were off to court to get him to pay up he sold the house. Since then both of us have tried countless times to get someone to come and quote. If they said they’d come, they never turned up. We’d all but given up until a couple of weeks ago when thanks to problems one land owner was having further up the street we got a contact and that contact is due to turn up today to put the poles in.

I may be counting my fence posts before they hatch as they haven’t arrived yet but I’ve had two calls this morning to confirm I’ll be home (as if I ever leave!) so my hopes are high that before too long our block will truly be our block.

Happy fourth anniversary my love.

xo

This may be the first time in my life I wish I was a Brit instead of an Aussie; I wish there was something I could do to help save the best radio station in the world.

Hey! I just realised that on a recent trip to the home of the current holder of The Worlds Ugliest Trophy that I didn’t see it proudly on display underneath the telly.

Footy tipping is coming…

I wonder who Henry and I will be barracking for tomorrow morning.

In the past two months I’ve had to replace a monitor, a mouse, a modem/router, a network card, a skype phone and now I have to get a new sound card. Come on computer gods, gimme a break. The worse thing is that after last week’s stunning Big Love episode we haven’t been able to watch the latest ep. It’s sitting there, waiting. If I can’t get a new card tody we may have to resort to watching it on a laptop.