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Tomorrow I'm running 4km (quite a long way for me at the moment) to raise money for breast cancer research. If you want to sponsor me, you can! Just click this link. If you do, thankyou. If you don't, then please give some money to another good cause.

Dear Mr(s) Estate Agent,

Can you manage my property? I ask only 4 things.
1. Will you respond to my questions and emails promptly and fully?
2. Will you respond to the tenant's requests for maintenance promptly?
3. Will you avoid using bad excuses for non-communication such as dodgy email systems?
4. Will you value both tenant and landlord as a customer and treat them as such?

If you can answer yes to 3 out of 4 of these questions, please contact me! If you can answer yes to 1 out of 4 of these questions, you're already doing better than our current estate agent.

Labels: estate agent

The sound randomly came back but only for TV, not skype. Then, as of 10 minutes ago, it's gone again. Still okay with headphones, though. The guide still won't pick up the programming for most of the channels, but htey're there, I can see them! Just a bit concerned I'm going to miss the amazing race because of it. Camera cable has turned up. It's gone on holiday with Pete, to Hong Kong. I hope it's enjoying itself.

Pete's gone to HK, and since he's been gone (less than 48 hours) I've had a techno blip. I worked out how to get ABC back on our TV. I lost all the TV channels. I got them back. The guide doesn't work. The sound on the TV doesn't work. I did lots of diagnostics. It works with headphones, therefore it's the speakers. I'm currently watching TV close up with headphones on. I've lost my camera cable so I can't get the photos off. Life is hard, without a husband!!

Today I set off to do a very simple thing. I wanted to pay our returned bond cheque into the bank. I handed over the cheque and my bank card, a visa debit. I was told I couldn't pay it in because it's a joint cheque, but my credit card. I had forgotten - this isn't a bank account (despite the fact that we both put our wages into it and we both have cards on it and we both have internet banking access to it). It's a credit card, and Pete has an extra card on it. A somewhat heated discussion followed, ending up with the manager turning up and taking me off to a private office. I pointed out a number of times that we don't have another bank account, we both put money into this one, we both take it out - how can that not be a joint account? Anyway, the upshot was I had to open another savings account with them, a joint one this time (we already have one, but because I opened it it's just in my name). And because they had Pete's details on file he didn't need to sign anything, and I could pay the money in straight away. Same end result, no extra permission from Pete, utter waste of 30 minutes.

I was so upset and angry with them they gave me a pig for my pain, so I now have two, one from the first savings account I opened, and one from today. If I keep going I'll have a family!

Labels: banks, oneaday, photos, pigs

There was so much I wanted to write about - our trip to Glenrowan and the substandard animatronic show (so bad you want to go back in and check it really is that bad), our boxing day barbeque and Keith's amazing uke playing, new year and the ridiculous temperatures, our walk around the shrine of remembrance - but somehow I just can't be bothered. Therefore I have pinched an idea from Mad, and whichever forum she got it off, and will just try and take a photo a day to illustrate what we're up to. They're all on Flickr, and I'll try and post them here too.

1st Jan - failed photo of midnight fireworks. We went to the shrine to watch them, with what seemed like most of South Melbourne. From where we were we could see most of the city fireworks, and the Albert Park ones aswell.

2nd Jan - Muffins. Now that I am officially lactose intolerant, I'm finding it quite hard (my love of cheese and chocolate milkshakes is a problem, as is the desire for ice cream that goes with the current temperatures). For new year my resolution was to stick to the healthy diet and not make myself ill, so I treated myself to a book entirely full of lactose and gluten free recipes. These were the first effort out of it, and they taste nice. The chicken and herb risotto last night was good too. However, the sweetcorn fritters are not that exceptional.

3rd Jan - roof of part of the NGV gallery. It's beautiful. I went in for half an hour as it's air conditioned and free, and tracked down the Turners. A nice relaxing way to kill time.

Labels: oneaday, photos

I love Australia. I may have mentioned this in the past, but I just love the colours, the freshness, the diversity. Melbourne alone gives me endless opportunities just to be, but the rest of Australia blows my mind. I have tried to capture it photographically, (the colours, the dust, the clouds you can reach out and touch, the sunsets, the big rocks and of course, Melbourne.

But I certainly don't do it as well as these guys. Take a look. It's my Australia.

Labels: australia photography

There are no words to describe the feeling when I discover that Popbitch has linked to this on a Boro page. PG. (talking abou the video, not the betting!)