Picking up on a previous post with this one. PYSOPT relationships, if you can call them a relationship, are odd. I spend about an hour each way on the train, going right to the end of the line. So lots of faces start to be familiar and a few are on a smiling basis. I'm not a chatter, especially by the end of the day, so the familiarity doesn't progress.
Does it for anyone else? Or are we all now preoccupied with technology and brain dead from work by the end of the day? There are some groups i have noticed - maybe i should find out if they are train only friends or if it extends past or pre the travel. Let's see if i can give you an answer on this...
time is really flying by. as suggested by the title, it has been a few days over two months since the fires. Things are good overall, but moving so slowly.
The debris is yet to be cleared. I got a call from the company contracted by the government to do the clean up about four weeks ago to say we will hear from them in a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks ago I did hear from, and was told I would hear from them in a couple of weeks. So that is yet to happen. It is what was expected and we knew it would be ages before things are cleaned up, but we are finding it difficult to imagine "what next" without a blank canvas to work from. However, we are starting to fantasize (is that spelt correctly?) about what to build - hopefully will capture the expanded views we now have.
We are still living with Pete and Wendy. We have a caravan that we move in and out of depending on who else is staying here (the beds inside are more comfy). Joe is working on the bathroom out the back for increased space for us all. We decided not to go ahead with the offered rental in Kinglake - given I am off the mountain nearly 12 hours a day due to work, we realised it would be very easy (especially for me) to fall into the trap of work, dinner, sleep and lose the support of being around others.
Having said that, we are house-sitting for some other friends for a week while they are away. This will give us all a break, especially P&W, who have had only the sunday after the fire to themselves in the past 2 months.
Further inviestigation revealed that Brodie's cuts and scratches were most likely the result of tangling with a possum. The neighbour told us he found a deceased possum at his place, and figure this was the outcome after giving Brodie a good whipping. The black and white wonder has always been intriuged (okay, obsessed) with possums (remember Fenton St davemonkey?) and I would say he managed to catch one when it was in a weakened state. Luckily for Brodie we didn't catch him mid-fight...but I would say he will leave them alone in the future.
Joe is still delighted to be driving around in the Troopie, and work is good for me (still waiting on whether I got the permenant position).
I am starting to get a few personal notes out to people - this is taking me longer than I would like, but will get there eventually. Your thoughts really do mean so much to us.
Happy Easter/Chocolate-fest everyone. x
I'm feeling pretty spoilt today. Yay!
Thank you cindy and kathryn. Already better than the original. I am a very lucky person.
There is a lady i would often see on my train to or from work. I realised she lived up the road from me one day when i drove past her walking the dogs one saturday morning en route to st andrews markets. I haven't seen her since the fires. I hope she is okay.
How long do you think until i'm bored with this toy?
I had coffee with tim today. And now i can post ribs from my phone! Although there are unrelated pieces of information.
Nothing too exciting to report. I've worked out how to do this via
mobile (look out kids!). Heard back from insurance - Yay for complete
replacement cover. Clean up won't start for few weeks. Brodie was
bitten, actually more nibbled, by something. Not sure what - vet says
rat or small dog. But no sign of fight and i can't imagine him
standing there while something chomps him. Weird. This is fun Way to
spend train time.
some pictures of our lovely furry friend.
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