This is Stephen, my tennis partner, and his son lachlan. He dropped in this morning to buy our TV. I hope it will last him many, many years.
I have started packing my suitcase now. It's starting to get a little bit exciting now. I'lll be so happy to be moving forwards again.
I dropped off a box at the post office and after that we went shopping. Here I was waiting for Nicole in the "clothes" section. You couldn't tell...
We were invited to Lachlan's second birthday today. Not that he actually knows what that is but that's alright ;-) We bought him a nice book with named pictures in different shapes that you can remove and put back. In the picture are Stephen, Lachlan and Caroline.
It must've been a kids paradise. Lachlan surely had a great time climbing on all the equipment. I think he'll sleep very nice tonight.
We sat at a long table outside. There was another table inside.
Lachlan today learned how to blow out candles, which was funny.
Afterwards, on the way home we drove past the Volkswagen dealer. I wanted to see if they had any red cars on display. This is the black model that will take 3 to 5 months if we order it. They only had a red VW Golf and the red was OK. If they have a red Beetle with beige interior in the country then we may go for that. We'll see. First they have to accept our latest offer.
When we came home Mason took me for a walk.
We saw Caesar again who was told to stay away from the fence by his owner because the fence was being painted.
In the morning a small flock of Cockatoos came by again to plunder our walnut tree. They can be quite noisy but they are very beautiful birds. Rather big too.
They pick the walnuts, try to open them and if they can't they drop them where ever. The first time they did this we scared ourselves shitless because they mostly drop them on a metal roof of the shed which is VERY loud...
We met Caroline, Stephen and Lachlan for lunch. It was a nice gig :-)
I continued working on my power supply today doing research mostly but I did want to mount the new transformer. Three times I walked passed a tap and die set at Bunnings and decided against buying it. I felt it would be handy at some point but just not at that time. Today was that time I needed them so we drove down when it started to get dark.
Not many people use these I think because they don't seem to sell at all while the quality ain't that bad at all...
I needed a few taps so I could screw my new transformer onto the casing.
It sits nice and tight now.
Today started with a church sale. The church across the road was selling all kinds of second, third and more hand things.
Then it was grocery time. I was surprised to see that Mtv has it's own hardware brand making different kinds of electronic equipment. There are digital media...
... dvd players and set top boxes...
And USB cupholders with a heating element AND external power supply. The latter is somewhat disappointing but understandable.
In the afternoon I drove us to the tennis court to meet Stephen and Lachlan, his boy, for 2 sets of tennis. The surroundings there are just fantastic. This is the oval (fields are also called ovals here, even if they're square), very spacious.
Then somewhat more left are 2 courts.
And a little more to the left you can find 4 more courts. All in good condition, real nets etc.
Stephen's tennis has improved a fair bit unfortunately this picture doesn't tell.
I dunno what was going on here.
This is Lachlan, who was cheering for us all the time.
On our way to Lachlan's 1st birthday party.
Stephen holding Lachlan, todays birthday boy.
