Notebook Shopping

Helping Jo purchase her new computer. She wants it for word processing and making graphics, so needs a decent amount of memory. Budget started at around $1,000 but she’s decided to get a notebook so I think we’ll need to go over that. Needs to come with standard features (WinXP, networking/USB ports etc, DVD/CD, warranty). […]

Flooded House!

We live in a rural area with only tank water to rely on. If we have a power outage, we don’t have water in the house, because it has to be pumped from the tanks (with an electric pump). Big power outage today for scheduled maintenance on the transmitter in our street, from 11am to […]

Police Drive Thru

Gotta love it when the crims come to you, hubby commented as he read a news article about a drunk driver who recently ploughed through the wall of a Gold Coast police station. I dont know who would have been more surprised – the police on duty, or the driver when he realised he had […]

On the Highway

Driving home today we were overtaken by a beautiful silver Porsche. H commented that the owner was either German or had a good sense of humour – the rego was “SCHNELL” (German for “fast”).

Dogs Dinners

Watching our pair as we fed them this evening I reflected that one of the good things about dogs is, you can feed them the same food every night – they will always get excited about dinner!

Jo Blossom Website

I am helping my sister put up her website. She has been writing a book, and keen to publish, and I convinced her to publish some material online. She seems pretty enthusiastic about it. The book is called Mrs Mopp’s Difficult Dilemma – a children’s story she has been working on for a number of […]