Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Flied Lice!

We heard some excellent news on the radio this morning – Governor Clancy has overruled the emigration board’s decision not to grant work permits for Bill and Fe, so now the Oriental restaurant is going ahead. We are very pleased. Bill’s work permit has also been granted which means he can go ahead with his consultancy as he planned. The poor ladies who will run the restaurant now have to re-order all their stocks and supplies, as they had to cancel their order, so a lot of time has been wasted.

Our electricity and water bill arrived today. It is for the period 28/09/2005 to 15/12/2005, and it is £202. We are relieved as we thought it might run into the 400’s. The church pays £90 towards it, so it’s really manageable. Now we can finally work out some monthly budget, instead of merely saving as much as possible to cover the bills when they arrive.

Nick and I finished off the tracing of farm pictures onto paper this morning, and then started the paint work. I didn’t think we would start painting so soon, but I’m glad because it’s going to take a long time. Today we did most of the red and most of the green, and it’s already starting to look nice. You can imagine that we will be extremely proud of our artwork!! We would like it to stay up in the schoolroom for as long as possible, or until they start falling off the walls or looking horrible, or we do next year’s club.

We took ourselves off to Spar to buy something for lunch, because I had no bread, and bought a little pizza and some sausage rolls, then went to Castle Gardens to eat. We had to think hard to come up with a shady place in town to eat our wares, but completely forgot that Castle Gardens were so convenient. We sat on a bench near the fountain in the middle of the gardens, and Nick threw some crushed Pringles on the ground, and it wasn’t long before the pigeons, doves and mynas were having a junk food feast.

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