Wednesday: As usual the day did not stay long on the plan... The new parents had a tough night, as did Eddy. He has not come to grips with being out in the cold world away from mum's heartbeat - but he will. We have a cuddle with eddy. He is still gorgeous! (And we have slept well.)
I am going to work for Owen... he has cornered the market here and his well trained part-time worker has taken a full-time job. He is consequently snowed under. I reckon I can do some of the the grunt work of drawing the plans over the hand sketched measured plans done on site. I have downloaded the 30 day trial of Macromedia Freehand MX, but need a PC to run it - not Mac. Anyway first lesson is this morning. Owen is so quick, even whilst explaining what he is doing. He has a custom template with all elements he needs. I figure it will take me hours to do what Owen can do in 20 minutes... but if I can work for a few hours (on the other side of the country) to give him 20 minutes with Eddy, then its a good deal.
So the lesson takes a while, and we are now late for lunch with Den and Bet Gorton on the south side of the river. It's great to see them. They have driven across the Nullalbor - round trip 45 times... and have stopped at Mulwala often in recent years on the way to Canberra or Merimbula to see Pete and Wendy. They are both fit and well. But Den is giving up flying his ultralight Piper Cub replica, too much hard work getting it out of the hangar with roll up front, and hand-starting etc - but he will still keeping up the gliding. The Cub is destined for the Air Force Assoc. Museum at Bull Creek, south Perth (and miles from any airport!)
We have a busy day, socially, today with dinner planned at cousin Bill and Christine McInerney. Great feed and chat, gets us home quite late!
Thursday: Visit the shops a little way down, find a walk-in hairdresser, finally get a haircut. feels better. Last trim was in Malanda! Visit Eddy. Cuddles for a time while mum and dad do stuff... still broken nights... midwife in today removing half Ali's stitches, well staples. We get out of their hair again.
Checked out steel to build the front yard fence with Owen. With Owen's approval, I can collect tomorrow with his ute. 2M posts won't fit the Suzuki...
We found some nice looking fillet steak earlier so dinner is decided!
Friday: Maz liked my haircut, so will front up a bit after 9 for a trim/style and shampoo... 1030 its off to visit Eddy - maybe it's Eddie??? Owen has had to attend some jobs this morning, was off early, so our timing is good to look after snoozing little boy while Ali finishes drying hair etc. I am off to get the steel posts and look for another fence panel, we are about 2.5 M short.
The midwife arrived just after I got back. Delightful, cheery northern England accent; sounds like Pam Ayers to me... Owen also back, so after checking out his family, we have a chance to discuss the fence. Figure if I get the stuff we can get to it on the weekend. We now have a plan. On our way back home to Honey - who we have left behind because she can be very noisy! - a few more bits of steel are collected.
Jacque, is back from the desert, and wants to inspect the bus, so tracked us down at Kingsway for a while. A bit later we need to get organised to use Owen and Ali's tickets to a quiz night with the Kennedy family. Regular social whirl here in Perth. Our table finished out of the money.... but did collect a few prizes. A latish night again.
Tomorrow is fence building day, or at least get poles in the ground.
