February 2008

Hi Everyone.

Bit late in wishing you a Happy New Year and the plan was to get this finished in time to wish you a Happy Chinese New Year - Welcome to the year of the Rat, but that failed due to circumstances out of my control. On the equivalent to Christmas Eve, three of the air con units in our apartment starting spewing out water. We were having dinner unaware that for thirty minutes water was dripping over my desk, work, papers and spraying my laptop. Bit of a mess and trying to get anyone out to fix it was a nightmare. Thought we would be sleeping all crammed into the kids beds which were the only rooms with working air con. Miraculously we eventually did get someone to fix the one in the bedroom without trying to rip us off. Kids woke up and came in our bed so i ended up with one of them sleeping on my head anyway.

So with the laptop dried out and all up and running, i thought well its still Chinese New year we will make it, but no this was scuppered when round at a friends, Joe crashed into a wooden table on his friends scooter and it fell on his back, taking inches of skin off his spine and immediately blackened and swelled up. So off we trotted down to casualty to spend yet another evening down there. This time we tried National University Hospital, just for a change like. After x-rays and the all clear i was signing the discharge form when Sean proceeded to vomit all over us and so the evening went even more down hill with him being sick and feeling under the weather and me sleepless as usual.
What an auspicious start to the Lunar new year!

Birdie