I have decided the porcupine has to go. This morning was the second day in a row that we have had to pick up the rubbish he leaves behind after he’s rummaged in the bin. You’d swear he thinks the bin is his personal lunch box or doggy bag, um porcupine bag. The thing is, one doesn’t want to be confronted every morning with rubbish strewn around the place, it has the habit of making the whole day feel icky. I guess the answer is to somehow fasten the lid down so he can’t get in, which is all good and well, but what about the extra black bags one has? We can’t very well keep them in the house, think of the smell, nope the porcupine has to go. Either that or Wouter is going to have to pee around the bin twice a night!
Our lime tree is doing well, I was taking some pictures of it and complained to Wouter that I wasn’t getting as sharp a picture as I would like, using my makro setting. Handed the camera to him and voila, he gets a perfect shot. Not to be outdone, I took more….. first one is Wouter’s, second mine.
Yea, I know his is better than mine. Shall have to work a little more on my technique.
Some house news – we’re not sure whether the people that signed up to buy my place have pulled a fast one or not. At the beginning of July they phoned me to let me know that they were having problems selling their place but were still keen to buy mine, but they just wanted to keep me in the picture. Last week Wouter asked our agent if they’d sold their place and she confirmed they had. We don’t know when they sold, but they certainly haven’t phoned me with the good news, so we figure they are using the excuse that they couldn’t sell their place as a way of getting out of buying mine. Does kind of put a spanner in the works, on the one hand it means there’s no rush to get out of mine (which helps from the kids and school point of view) on the other hand it’s a bit of a concern, because we’re planning on putting the money into the bond. Will have to try and find another purchaser I guess.
We’ve started to work on our bathroom again, put the basin in as W wanted to check if the hole in the wall for the pipe was in the right place, sadly it’s a few mm’s out, so that’s going to have to be sorted out.
I’m now off to see if I can persuade W to stop long enough to order pizza…