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It's the middle of April, and we haven't
been away anywhere except for a little 3-day
trip away to Mt. Buffalo, in February.
We've been at home, doing things; and so
long has gone by that I need to refer to my
diary to find out what we have done. Things
have been done; neither of us is good at
sitting around, leaving things undone.
Alison had a last visit to the hand surgeon,
which was really a waste of time; she was
told that it was all fixed and there were no
restrictions on use of her thumb. So she's
back to circus as she was before.
Because she was going back to circus, I went
back to the Wednesday night Spanish
Conversation class; but I am a tad
disappointed in it. The class is too big,
and I preferred the stand-in teacher we had
when I went last year, to the permanent one
this year. So I'm not returning to that.
 I
was talked into running the U3A Spanish
Conversation class in Castlemaine, again.
After the usual attrition of half the
enrolees (with either very basic Spanish or
none at all!) the are two left who are
reasonable - one better than me at the
language. And I still have coffee every week
with another Spanish speaker from last year,
so the pool of decent Spanish speakers in
Castlemaine is slowly increasing.
The big change in our house is that we have
"abolished" our gas supply. After changing
our gas hot water with a heat-pump electric
heater, and replacing our old gas stove
(which we've never liked) with an electric
one with induction cooktop, I rang and had
our gas meter and our gas supply removed.
The only gas appliances remaining were our
gas log fires; fortunately, before it got
too cold  we
replaced the main one with a heat-pump
heater.
The change in the stove (80 cm wide to 60 cm
wide) meant that some rearrangement had to
happen; it ended up with our rubbish and
recycling bins, which used to sit at the end
of the kitchen bench, are now in drawers
instead. Much better! And we were able to
make the new drawers almost entirely out of
timber we already had, sitting out in the
shed.
And there's been the usual looking after
other people; one day, other people may come
and look after us, but it hasn't reached
that stage yet
And - I've been called up for jury duty. I
could have got out of of it, on the grounds
of "advanced age", but I think it would be
interesting; so I've had to defer it till
October because we're going to be away too
much before then.
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