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The week went a little like this. Work, gym, home, spooks on the laptop, bed. Not bad as we are on “school” nights but not exactly blogging gold either! That said I did have a rather a stinker of an argument with the garage. Remember last week we needed a new radiator? Well at the time I asked if the car was worth fixing or whether I should just buy a new one and start again. The garage (which had been recommended) said that with a new radiator the car should be fine. The famous last words. Upon collecting it we drove a 40km round trip and the clutch stopped working. The garage lent us a courtesy car and said they would come back to us. Despite the problems occurring in less than 1 hour of leaving the forecourt the garage maintained that they could not have foresaw the problems. I begged to differ and suggested as a good will gesture I buy the part and they install them for free. This did not go down well and in a fit of argument the owner told me to bloody well bring back his hire car and take mine away. Not to be deterred I emailed them with alternative quotes but alas they would not lower there’s. One was not happy but we did find a far cheaper garage who fixed the car. That said our cash flow has somewhat been affected as in we have none left.
Thursday night saw tory our friend popped round for dinner and a DVD. Saturday was meant to be a trip to the beach for surfing but in the end the weather was overcast (oh what wimps we are now) and we opted for a drive out with roger, some lunch and a visit to someone who owned a guest house. Now this is not just any guest house this is a lush garden experience with fabulous rooms. What more they have an outdoor bath. Not hot tub (well they have one of those too) but a proper bath. Over tea we agreed that as I needed entertainment I would do some labouring around the gardens and in return they would let us use the bath, feed me and at some point stay there. Well I was happy with an outdoor project and James with the prospect of an outdoor bath.
Staying on the water theme we headed back to Roger and Rosses for a dip in their hot spa accompanied with a glass of wine before returning for another episode of spooks.
Sunday morning was a proper Kiwi Sunday… gardening! As there is rain and lots of garden things have a tendency to grow. So along with what sounded like half the neighbourhood were out cutting the grass. Post lunch and it was election training for me as next week I am going to be an issuing officer for the general election. Interesting and more money!
One last things… my bottom is much better. I knew you would be thinking about it!
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