Irene's Blog

PINK DOES MELBOURNE In July, my daughter and I had a wonderful night out to see PINK in concert in Melbourne.  What a show it was.  We bought our tickets 9 months ago and she was well worth the wait. I'd been playing her CD in the car for weeks, much to the annoyance of my husband who had to put up with it.  Her trapeze and acrobatic work is fabulous and her voice was just as good as it was on CD, even though at times she was flying through the air or upside down. I can't wait until later this year when the DVD of this concert will go on sale as then I'll be able to relive it.  I just hope my husband has recovered from the continual playing of the CD by then because that DVD will be played over and over again.

TERMITE INFESTATION NEARLY ATE OUR HOUSE What a time of it we've had over the past few months.  A crack in the plaster of our ceiling which I thought was just cosmetic, turned out to be so much more.  On investigation, it was discovered that we had termites which had come up the stumps of our house in two places and those nasty little critters had eaten their way through our family room over what must have been the past year, completely unknown to us of course. We had to get the whole house treated with Termidor then wait 8 weeks before we got the all clear so that repairs could start.  My beautiful tiled floor had to be completely removed so there we were in the middle of winter with a massive hole where the floor used to be. The builder we engaged did a wonderful job replacing bearers and joists beneath the floor with the damage going further than expected right through under the laundry, bathroom and livingroom.  To check the wall beneath where we first noticed the crack i