Premature Party

Today we had a party to celebrate Phoebe's birthday. It wasn't actually her birthday, until later in the week but as she kept asking when it was we gave in and threw a party a few days early. It also meant that we avoided having to hold it after she'd gone back to school, which would have been an anticlimax. Naturally, we had V&W and kids, and the neighbour's kids over for various nibbles. Sadly the party poppers didn't quite last, but this is largely as a result of them being "opened" so they could be "tested" before the party started. Rhiannon skipped the party as she was spending time down in the mount with her mate, again.

We had made an appointment to view another house a few doors down from us which was coming up for rent. Thus we temporarily abandoned the kids for 10 minutes or so leaving Vicky in charge and went to look round it. It wasn't in the best decorative order and looked decidedly shabby in places. The tenants had been in there 5 years or so, and thus they had "grown" into the house as you might expect. Although the living space was larger, the bedrooms were smaller and there was only one tiny bathroom and one toilet. It simply wouldn't do.

When we got back, we found that the kids had been playing with the garage door and had left it in a half open position. This revealed an unwelcome visitor, who had made a rather poor judgement call and had decided to crawl along the gap where two sections of the door meet, just as the door had been closed. The remnants of this inch long critter are shown opposite. It is alas one of the downsides to living in a tropical climate, that you do sometimes encounter massive cockroaches which take a fair amount of effort to squash. But not in this case! ;-)

After we'd disposed of various children, I finished off entering an online profile for a contract recruitment agency. I'd postponed doing this so far as I was waiting the outcome of the ZCE exam. It required me to enter details of the two bribed individuals who had rashly agreed to provide references. Both duly completed their bits of stuff, and having read what they'd written, even I would sleep with me. Thanks guys, beers all round when I get work, I think, hemispheres permitting.