#2026 Wednesday 15th July

The hot water system has been a saga!  I'm glad it has reached a satisfactory conclusion.  After Friday when I thought it had decided to work again, it turned out that it was just the sunny days giving us some solar hot water .... when the clouds came again the cold water came too!

It turned out that the heat pump had died ...... a new one costs $850 and takes a week to build ..... so no hot water?  Disaster!

Fortunately I managed to get a second hand heat pump and I was able to modify it to fit.  So we have hot water after all!

Kaylia has been enjoying drives with Alby and Bec.

Ably and Bec are leaving us on Monday.  We are not going to look for a new aupair at this time.  We plan to just have an after-school carer for a while and see how that goes.