Hard times 
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 04:38 PM
For the last three months we haven't had Bronwyn earning anything. We've also had major dental bills, the motel, new glasses for Bronwyn after the handle broke off and several other things. Bronwyn has been doing really well as far as spending goes. We've got a second account that we're using to budget with, and she's hardly spent anything. Which is just as well because the washing machine is making a loud noise and my car spilled half the coolant on the ground yesterday. Still haven't paid the mechanic for fixing the brakes.

But she has a new job starting next week. It's at Old MacDonald's Farm, and she'll be doing three full days a week. Hopefully we'll have my car back by Monday otherwise I'll be stuck at home. I got paid yesterday. Well, supposedly. It takes at least a day and a half to orbit the banking system before finally reaching my account.

In the meantime I've had a quiet Saturday. Largely because I couldn't do a lot, since I've got no car and no money. I went out earlier to visit my trees. It helped me unwind a bit.

Giles, my colleague from work, got trapped in Thailand last year from the protests at the airport. He took a bus to Singapore and flew from there. It took three days, plus another two in Singapore. Now he's eight or nine thousand in debt, and not doing very well at repaying it. At least things aren't quite so bad for us.

Had dinner with a friend last night. He gave me a tour of the house, and pointed out all the places where he'd had to make major repairs after they'd basically dumped the house there in sections and glued it together again.

Rachael was out at a friend's birthday yesterday. They all went out for a meal, and then spent the night there. Last year they all went off to a theme park and went on a lot of the rides. Not sure I could match that, but at least Rachael hasn't asked us for a similar party...

Our third cat (Smokey) is still allegedly at large, and terrorising our current cat and everybody else's. So we're discussing ways of catching it. Bronwyn's dad says he knows a friend of a friend who recommends putting a fresh wild duck in the trap. So Bronwyn has asked Neil to go bag a duck. Ducks are tricky. It may be easier to go for one of the Canada geese that have set up residence on the big paddock. Don't know if they'd fit in the trap, though.

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