Poor lonely blog

Poor little blog - so often in my mind but never reaches the keyboard! Well, its time to ressurect!

A busy Christmas - I worked through and we had Johans mum to stay - shame, she gets so bored on the plot and we have so much to do and so little time in which to do it! Lovely to have friends over for a lovely Christmas lunch and then off the next day to our traditional boxing day lunch with Bobby and Ted.

The "wii" christmas present has been a great success and I have discovered that I have a talent for 10 pin bowling (the virtual version!) - it is amazing how lifelike you can make the little "mii's" - Sam has even created a Biggles! Rummikub has also been very well used and the new world Monopoly has put a new spin on an old game!

Apart from the Christmas rush etc we were also coping with the renovation of Plot 2 next door. The transfer came through on 15th December and then we had to wait for Eskom to connect us - the builders were there in force, unfortunately though, not the electrician and tiler so things went a bit cockeyed in terms of the order in which things were done. In the end we were so frustrated we sent the builders off until the tiler and electrican had finished - which should be anyday now. We have learnt a costly lesson - builders who say they can paint and that know plumbers and carpenters that they recommend .......... enough said, just know that you will be ripped off with a shoddy job.

It is just unbelievable how much paint they can go through - and coming home each night to be given yet another list of materials required was the absolute end - just when in my day am I meant to have time to go via paint shops, hardware shops etc - I took leave one day out of sheer frustration - but the lists keep coming!

So, we temporarily banished the builders, when they come back we will have a checklist of everything that is wrong and will go through it with them - the main reason that most things have gone so drastically wrong is that neither of us are there to supervise and builders have no respect for materials and cost. Even so, blemishes aside, the house has been TRANSFORMED and is really going to look great once it is finished! Now, if any tenant dare mess it up...... the wrath of Di will be on their heads!