New Flight Plans

Trish is flying to Melbourne for a couple of weeks late in April. As Tiger Airways are still not flying into the Sunshine Coast Airport, we tend to travel when it is suitable in and out of Brisbane

When booking her flight some time ago she thought she would give the new airline "Australia Airways" a go to see what they were like.

Overnight Australia Airways went into Receivership! Documentation indicates that as we paid via a credit card there are avenues available for a refund. We will be investigating that later today.

Trish has already booked replacement flights this morning with Tiger Airways out of Brisbane and the cost is actually cheaper than when she had book with Australia Airways.

I have bought myself a 'new' weather station for my birthday. The old (now retired) weather station was purchased off eBay years ago! I paid around $65 for it back then. It has been in use for a few years now and the 'remote' sensor for outside temps wasn't working too well.

The new one was $38 on eBay and it arrived today. It is now setup and working. It will be interesting to compare temperatures, especially outdoors because I always felt the old weather station's outside temp reading was a bit inflated.

We have lots of roadworks around the estate right now with works being done on the main road into the estate. We have a school here which caters for 1250 kids and most come in by car. You can imagine what it is like when the kids arrive for school and the one and only road in has extensive roadworks going on.

In its wisdom the Council decided to carry out its roadworks here this morning as well and decided to redirect traffic back around by the school during school morning drop off time. The roads were gridlocked! I have been busy as President of the local Community Association to see what is happening and try to get the left hand to know what the right hand is doing!

You can read about it HERE.