So sitting under the pergola at 9 am on a Sunday is warm and fuzzy. In short it is delightful. The pergola remains as one of our best ever decisions.
News remains somewhat limited. The bottle washing was completed satisfactorily and the bottling on Friday went without a hitch. With the cooler weather the heat pad comes into use to keep the brew bubbling along nicely.
It is that time of year when the heart attack doctor wants to see me again so it was in for a 6am blood test midweek. Blood tests are not high on my list of great things to do. Then there is the ENT specialist for my annual ear check up and clean up early next week.
I had a bit of a go myself at relaying some of the border stones in the new garden wall we had installed. The promise of heavy rain during next week that should finish off the garden ready for planting. I am quite pleased with what I have achieved.
We went out with friends to the Vietnamese Restaurant Miss Hoi An mid week. Just delightful food and now others are beginning to agree with us that it is the best Asian Food at our end of the Sunshine Coast.
The Community Association has been simmering along quietly meaning not much has been required to be done. This I don't mind.
I had a text message from Peter (the relative whose wedding we are attending in Manila in December) during the week. He works with Virgin Airways at Brisbane Airport and has offered to include us on his friends Virgin discount list for fare reductions.
Flights out of Sunshine Coast Airport are more convenient to get to but don't always have the travel times that suit. But Virgin are a little different and fly around mid day to Melbourne and while depart Melbourne around 9:00am for a sunny Coast arrival just before lunch.
The fares are OK too but still not quite as cheap as flying Tiger out of Brisbane. We could probably get a free lift to and from the Sunshine Coast Airport which offsets the cheaper Tiger Flights.
Tiger have a bit of a habit of switching passengers from one flight to another. So now when Trish returns from Melbourne in August her return to Brisbane arrival time has been swapped from around lunch time to mid afternoon and peak hour driving time from Brisbane to Caloundra.
We don't get back from the Philippines until around mid December meaning a very short turn around before we have to drive the 1800k's down to Melbourne for Christmas with the family. With the offer of a good deal with Virgin, we are carefully considering whether this year we should fly down rather than drive.
It means we don't have a car while in Victoria which severely limits what we can do so perhaps a shorter stay and flying may be the way to go. Trish will chat to family down south during her August trip to Melbourne.
The new Washing Machine didn't go exactly to plan either. Just being the two of us meant we didn't require the best top of the line model. We grabbed a 7.5 kg Whirlpool front loader from our local The Good Guys which was being discounted at the time. It was delivered the same day which was great.
The deal was to deliver the new one, set it up and then take away the old machine with the busted door. All went well until he turned the new machine on to test it. It didn't work properly so it too was uninstalled and placed back on his truck.
The replacement washer was delivered around midday the next day. It now works fine and serves our purposes nicely. However during last week The Good Guys had a 20% sale with front loading washers one of their featured items. Delivery was around $75 and I am not sure it would have included installation and take the old unit away.
It would have been a little messy to send back a 'purchased online' washing machine and to get rid of the old machine. But then 20% is 20%!
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