#627 Saturday 30 June

The dreaded termites are still around.  About 6 months ago, termites were found in a wall of the office.  Despite treatment at the time, we found some more this week in the same spot.  Another treatment from a different operator.  This morning we have been stripping wall lining off to get back to a repairable base.

This photo is of my little Bunnings purchase this morning .... since I can no longer play in my shed and play with big tools(toys), I now have a fetish for little tools ... my day to day "man bag" is a veritable mobile tool bag!
Kaylia is back outside in Naomi's office ... its one of her favourite places!

#626 Friday 29 June

Last business day of the financial year.  (Not that it matters to Kaylia!)
Kaylia is downstairs ... complaining that she has missed out on her therapy session today!  (Kat is in Bali on a holiday.)  Kaylia will be even more annoyed when she realises that she doesn't have therapy tomorrow either! 
Kaylia negotiated a comprimise ..... Nandos! (If I can't have therapy, can I have Nandos instead?) 
(these words are my translation of Kaylee-speek)
Perhaps she is destined to be a polititian?  She will be insensitive to other people and she will be excellent at negotiating .... and she will stick to her guns on any topic she chooses!

Naomi is not well .... she's taking tomorrow off so she can have a better chance to recover. 

#625 Thursday 28 June

It was 'mini-Christmas' today .... to add spice to life I arrange a sequence of small EBay purchases .... $2 to $3 each .... the idea is that on any day, there just might be a surprise in the mail! Today the mail system went wonky and 6 arrived at once. Admittedly most were new underwear but .... It's still a parcel in the mail!

Now the the ABC has iView on the iPhone, I thought to myself ... "I can watch some TV while I'm in bed.". Alas, the years of only being able to watch Wiggles and kids TV now mean that I just can't get interested in programs that used to be my favourites .... I started watching a pathologist series ... and found myself being annoyed by things in the plot that I never noticed before. I'm ruined!

Kaylia is still loving school .... in the current cold weather she refuses to wear warm clothes. She's wearing summer uniform and if we put a jumper on, she soon takes it off! She almost glows with her internal heating system. The school staff say that she gets cold at school .... but I can't believe it! I think they can't accept that she isn't cold so they imagine that's she is.

Naomi has been REALLY sick today .... so much so that she stayed home from work and went to the doctor. It's the flu thing that hit Kaylia a couple of weeks ago. I've got it too but not as bad as Naomi. Kaylia is so entrenched in her routines that when she arrived home from school, she was upset by Naomi being at home ...

#624 Wednesday 27 June

Cold day. We had a "night out" last night .... good movie. Kaylia was asleep when we got home .... she usually stays awake till we get home so its an improvement for her to sleep.
Today is business as usual.



I've been playing with light through the mist from 'dry ice'.






In the past few days I've been giving a statement to the inquiry into the Northam hostel issues .... it's nice that people are concerned about the goings on at that time .... it's a pity that the concern wasn't there 45 years ago.

#623 Tuesday 26 June

Busy day..... it started with a visit to an old client to sort out a problem for them .... then back to Midland for the normal day. We have another "Kat" in the office! Kat3 is from Ireland .... I've told her that her sole function is to talk! I love the Irish accent and it makes my knees go watery!

#622 Monday 25 June

Hooweee!!! I got tickets for $109/$55 last night .... In May next year.
We're all sick today .... Kaylia recovering, me in middle stage and Naomi just starting ..... Throat and cough. We all sound like Ee Oar in Winnie the Pooh.
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Evening .... how sick are we???? This morning Naomi drove past the office twice before she could find the entrance!! Enuff said!
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I don't feel too good either. I've stocked up on throat soothers .....
Kaylia is fine .... She had it and is over it.

#621 Sunday 24 June

We're managing the volcano .... there's a threshold which is the difference between a happy, self-absorbed Kaylia ... and a Kaylia who demands attention and nags for an outcome which may or may not be possible. We live on a knife edge .... hoping that the latter doesn't happen.

It just started and we managed to delay by using the timer on the phone ..... 10 minutes to car!
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2pm  We've been over to Morley ... Naomi took Kaylia for a 2nd viewing of Brave ... she was more interested this time.  She has a cinema behaviour which can be a problem. She likes to jump around while watching!  Mostly we sit in a place in the theatre where this isn't a problem to other patrons .... but today, a person was sitting behind and objecting every time Kaylia did her thing!  Naomi had to abort 20 minutes before the movie end.
While this was happening I went over the road to the new "Coventry Square"  .... very nice.  The food is good and there are lots of interesting nicky-nack shops.  I noticed that most of the items are Ebay type items ..... on sale for around double to triple the price on Ebay!
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Now we're at the Midland office.  Kaylia is in Naomi's office .... "stimming" her heart out (she loves it!) while Naomi and I have some shared computer time.  How unusual!