Irene's Blog

Quite often, when going into our garage, we've found items from a high shelf on the floor. We didn't think it was a possum because there were no tell tale signs such as possum poo and we all know how messy possums are in that department. I thought that perhaps it was a cat getting in , however, we've now discovered that it is indeed a possum because I saw it tonight. I'd blocked a space where I thought it was getting in only to find out tonight that it was it's exit I'd blocked and it was coming in from the back of the garage and being trapped with it's exit unavailable - I just hope it's got enough sense to realise that if it gets in, it's only going to have to go out the way it got in and going over the outside of the roof is a better option for it's nightly travels.

Today we went for a lovely drive up to Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges. We went for a wander along the street looking at all the little shops then had a Devonshire Tea at the PIE IN THE SKY restaurant. Looking at the meals being served to other patrons, I think we'll be going back for lunch sometime. We went into the sweet shop; they have sweets from all around the world and I almost had to drag John out of the shop before he got carried away At $3.90 for a Walnut Whip, I think that's asking a bit much considering the fact they seem to have shrunk since I was a child.

John went back to work after having a two week break. As he went out into the garage to get the car - the brand new one that's only 2 weeks old - he called me to have a look. We had a flat tyre!!! John took my car to get to work and I rang the auto club. The auto club man put on the stupid little "space saver wheel" that comes with the car as a spare which looks ridiculous and is only meant to be used in an emergency - who'd want to drive around on something like this anyway and why economise on something like this, I'd rather have a full sized spare. Not only is it smaller in diameter, it's about half as wide as a proper tyre and I didn't feel at all safe. As it's Bridgestone tyres that are on the car, I popped down to the Bridgestone place not that far from us and found that there was a piece of flat metal embedded into the tyre on the inside and where it is, it can't be repaired so a new tyre is required and the original one that's flat had