Year of the dog. Sigh, on account of not the best year if you happened to be born in the year of the dragon.
although, Master Rao hasn’t painted a gloomy forecast for this year for..well, dragons per se. Has been sort of upbeat. Surprising to say the least.
Our house has suffered a .calamity..might be the right term to use..or two..we had a flood..burst pipe on..another sigh..an exes birthday. Not a great thing to happen, it was just as well we had the soup kitchen notice the sound of rushing water. My goodness me. It was flooding out from under a handbasin in the..ahem..guest suite. doesn’t that sound la-di-da. The water was turned off..it was only the next day that we learned that the Billisaurus was the only person who knew where the shut-off tap was….these things happen. Flood contained, mopped up, not a lot of damage done..the insurance company reckoned we could bear the cost of fixing it all up, but that they would spring for the cost of a new cabinet under the aforesaid handbasin, if it should start to swell, break open, as chipboard is inclined to do when ..deluged. Albeit we pay the first $300…

The offending pipe

Chaos reigns supreme

Yaas. the loml, aka the honeybun splintered the other day, so we are in maketheplacelookpwetty mode. New bamboo fence out the she-cave window..old one had a few palm fronds fall on it, wrecked the top of it here and there, Just before we had a Visitation..from the offspring of the..aforesaid loml or honeybun. We had a picture fall down from the wall..the Bilisaurus was all set to fix All the ones in the house that weren’t securely fastened..this happening just before the…Visitation. would have been white powder here and there, as there would be, but the Billisaurus failed to clear the first hurdle..that of correctly diagnosing the type of wall we had…silly me thought he could bore a hole in it, put a plaster anchor in it. would have worked well…if the wall wasn’t solid. Sew..the picture put back, hole covered up, more work needs to be done! The..honeybun Not impressed with all this happening when the..Visitation was imminent. SIGH. all pictures put back in a timely fashion, and replacing the anchor points is a Work In Progress.
Seeing as the pipe that burst..remember the burst pipe..was of the type of rubber inner, metal sheath outer that had rusted in spots, the Billisaurus decided to replace all the ..similar pipes. that went surprisingly well, lemme say. And, final hiccup, was that the aforementioned gentleman had decided to fix a stain in the..ahem..carpet, that UNfortunately turned into a hole, so we won’t try and fix another stain in quite exactly the same fashion will we….nope. But, carpets were on the cruddy side, so we are getting new carpets all around. That’s my bad, and..we do want a nice looking house, with carpets looking good, and the same ones throughout. cost came in less than half of what I feared, and they will move the heavy furniture, and be out of here in a day. Bennets, local lot.
Year of the dog. hmmm. Calamity stuff, but all fixable, and I do enjoy fixing stuff. sort of, if it wasn’t my fault type of thing.
Oh, the bamboo fence. I was all set to travel down the coast, where we had a place that sold a reasonable facsimile of the old fence..on a weekend when we had deluges happening down that way. The picture..well, google earth picture..of the bamboo-selling-place, looked like a bomb had hit..a wasteland it was. and their website wasn’t working at all. The Billisaurus decided to take a look at a  Bunnings locally website..here was the exact fence, for a fraction of the price.

Nice looking fence, and the holy carpet 🙁

My goodness me. So we tootled off to buy, and actually found a Bunnings that the loml, aka the honeybun, was..more or less ..happy with. It did help that across the carpark was one of those huuuge warehouse two dollar shop type affair. all sorts of goodies therein. Amongst other things, we scored a birthday pwessy for the..grandfurbaby. Bentley, or Sir Bentley..if you haven’t had an official introduction.

One cutey petutey

The Billisaurus could probably make this an episodic type of thiang, stringing you all out for weeks..but he can’t be bothered.
Here t’is. Enjoy!