Hi all,
Well it's been a whole week .... A lot can happen in a week! A lot of money can be fined and plenty of points picked up!
Yes, you've guessed it, Mr middle-aged boy racer has already managed to rack himself up some penalty points. Poor sod has had to put up with my snide comments and under the breath mumbles and now I've gone the whole hog; gone viral with his misdemeanours. Oh well, I guess he's only coming out in sympathy with his brother-in-law!!!!! Anyway, his argument is that the Aussies all drive at a snail's pace and, compared to us zany poms, that's true. But I warned him time and time again! The Aussies don't do things by halves over here. The road in question is a dual carriage way with a 60km per hour speed limit. Yes Nathan, I know that 78 km per hour is only 48 miles per hour and the speed limit for an equivalent GB road is 70 miles per hour, but we're not in England and 78km per hour is still 18km per hour over the limit whatever way you look at it! When in Rome and all that! We're lucky it wasn't a public holiday because then he'd have picked up 6 points instead of 3!
The fine was $248. Add that to the $246 parking fee we got in the first week here and we're anything but 'quids in'. More like ' dollars disaster!'
Anyway, that delightful letter was with some other post that we picked up from the hotel, having yet to change our address with all and sundry ..... Again! The other letter contained our Medicare cards, which was great, especially considering that we 'd been waiting so long for these that, having assumed they'd got lost in the post, we'd cancelled them and reapplied for new ones the day before!!!
Hoo bloody ray!!!!!
Oh, here's an interesting fact for you. My new claim to fame - Hugh Jackman (mum and dad - he's an extremely famous Hollywood movie star) went to Knox Grammar school!!! I bet he didn't have that silly wolverine hair style back then! I wonder if he played drums and bagpipes, wearing a kilt - ooh, what a nice thought!
Nathan and I have been continuing to go on our evening strolls around West Pennant Hills. I don't know why we torture ourselves so. The houses are all like Mr Warbuck mansions! Can't imagine we'll be buying a house here. Oh well, maybe far away or may be real nearby, the sun'll come out and we'll buy a little garden shed in someone's garden. Nathan could be the gardener and I could be the hired help?
The girls had a lovely time at their swimming carnival last Wednesday, both competing and doing themselves proud considering they haven't swam since December. Next job on the to do list is to get them into a swimming club.
Following the disappointing weather last weekend,we thought we'd buy Becky her belated birthday present and take her to the beach this weekend. After all, it had been 30 degrees on Wednesday when we were outside all day at Knox, arranging and running the six events sports day. But no, it has rained all weekend so the belated birthday is belated again. We took the kids to see Frozen to make up for it. The irony does not escape me. We're waiting for a hot weekend and end up watching Frozen! The sun doesn't seem to have any problem blazing down while we're at work mind!
So, as I'm blogging here in bed - it's 10.40 pm Sunday night- hubby is writing highly interesting physics work sheets on his MacBook Air. I'm not sure if its physics or some kind of seizure but he's just started flopping about and clapping his hands like a demented seal.
I had better sign off and find out what's got him so excited. It's probably the excitement at the prospect of getting a jug or bug!
Night night
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