This that and the other thing

Man - what's up with the weather in Wellington lately! Go Wellington! I innocently checked stuff when I got into work this morning and there the weather forecast says the high for today is 20 degrees! So in disbelief I went and checked the metservice website and it reckoned the high for today is 23 with an expected high of 24 tomorrow! That's almost at Brisbane levels tomorrow - we're set for a chillier 26 with it getting back up to 30 by Monday. Although I don't really notice day time temperatures as we have air con at work and it is freezing! Way too cold aye! It's a bit of a shock (first go at writing that I put sock - whoops) to go out at lunch time sometimes when it's 31 or 32 outside - like walking into a wall!

Well I went for my first run in a few months last night - very tiring!!! I figured out on google maps that it was about a 4km loop around the railway line - down to Oxford Park station and back around past Grovely station where Paul and I catch the train from every day (you can see it at http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=14388927970835008790,-27.403904,152.967985%3B6500185445753650216,-27.407625,152.972365%3B12719500060159039039,-27.400950,152.963274&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=83+woking+street,+keperra,+qld&daddr=Cribb+Ave+%40-27.403904,+152.967985+to:Scanlan+Rd+%40-27.407625,+152.972365+to:-27.401032,152.963998&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=3&sz=16&via=1,2&sll=-27.40295,152.965245&sspn=0.013735,0.028667&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1)
It's pretty easy to extend it as well as I get a bit fitter as I can just go another block down the train line towards Mitchelton:-) Paul biked to work yesterday morning but I don't think I'm fit enough to give that a shot yet as it's just under an hour of hard biking. I can go for a run ok but I'm not very "bike fit".

Well I haven't really talked about anything very interesting in this post - it's been more of a brain fart. But oh well. So just to continue on that path - Paul and I bought ourselves a bbq from Bunnings last night. They're great as they're open from 6am till 9pm so you can go whenever. You won't believe the number of businesses over here that are open 9-5 Monday to Friday and maybe Saturday mornings and that's it. So go Bunnings! Actually no bad Bunnings as Paul and I have spent way too much money there lately. What have we bought - from memory:

• BBQ
• Pots & saucers to re pot our house warming plants. (2 cool self watering ones so Ange can't over water the plants)
• Potting mix for above
• 2 10 metre lengths of grey water hose to pump our washing machine water onto the trees.
• Watering can
• 3 Rubbish bins
• Rust off stuff
• Turps or Meths or something that Paul needed (aka Man stuff)
• 2 of those briscoes type fold up chairs
  
• Garden fork
• A little garden fork and spade thing
• Line trimmer (needed for doing edges when moved out of old flat - evil property manager)
• Mulch for the big trees
• Gardening gloves
• Electric bug zapper for outside
• Broom
• Brush and shovel
• Padlock
  

Now I'm sure there's probably a few more things that I have forgotten - but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. So you would think that's all we could possible want right - wrong! I actually want everything in the shop - but that's besides the point. The next things on our list are:

• Fertiliser for the plants (they were out of stock of the one we wanted last night)
• Potentially one more pot
• Spade (when we decide to build a vege garden - but that has to wait for a rain water tank)
• Outdoor table and chairs
• Lawnmower
  

And everything else I may want will probably remain on the want list as we have to start paying off the mortgage :-( Good thing we got our full bond back from Chermside or we'd never have been able to afford half that stuff.

Well better do some work now.

Latas
Ange