After one day of nice weather the next storm front has hit. I’m off to Sydney tomorrow for a week and I hope the wind drops a bit. A weather station about one mile away has just recorded a gust of 182kph (113mph)!!
Cool – the slab’s down for the house! We went unconditional today and paid our deposit so the house is ours whether we want it or not 
Yay! Our first family all-you-can-dribble illness It seems that Max felt like sharing the bug and now we all have stinking colds… Thanks Boy!
The highlight of the day was buying a new toy – a nice wee Canon A70 digicam. I’d been after a little, easy to carry camera for a while and this had $150 off! I’ll post a couple of pics when the weather lets up enough to get out.
Speaking of weather, in my last entry I said the we were having floods. Some friends of ours live in a small town 2 hours north of here (14,000 people) and they have had no water for 4 days now. Not much fun when you have two small kids! We offered them a place to stay but they ended up going to stay with relatives (getting out of town via the one road that was open!) The flooding has been bad all over the area but luckily we’ve escaped so far – and they are forecasting another 100mm/4” overnight 🙁
Poor Max is ill for the first time 🙁 He’s caught the cold that Abbey had when she visited in the weekend and is pouring snot out his nose like a tap! It’s about time he got sick – hopefully it’ll build his immunity up a bit. He also threw up last night and I can’t believe that we caught it in a bowl! His coughing caused it so we had a bowl ready just in case. We also thought he’d thrown up in bed but then realised that he’d just been sleeping on his front and had smeared snot all around with his face. The funny thing is he woke up from his morning nap and had white, dried snot all over his eyebrows and looked like a little old man! lol! He’s also got another molar coming through (his third) which is swelling his cheeks up like a chipmunk
And on top of all this we tried giving him a haircut last night and, although he looks cute, I’m not too sure about the fringe…… The 17mm lens I was using didn’t help either!
Click the link for another pic 
It is so stormy here at the moment! There are floods all over the area and trees are down by the dozen. Many areas are cut off from the rest of the world and rivers are bursting their banks on a regular basis. I went down the road last night to get a curry and was stopped by police about 100 yards short of my destination. They allowed me to walk through to the restaurant but I had to be careful as the roof was being blown off Burger King down the road a bit!
The wind was so bad last night that it woke me up at about 03:00 and I couldn’t get to sleep. After an hour I got sick of tossing and turning and went and slept on the couch downstairs where it is much quieter……..
Hopefully things will quieten down later today.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world;
those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Damn – I just got my first lot of blog comment spam 🙁 It was only on my lo-res photo blog and I’ve banned the IP address but I don’t know if that will do any good.
If it continues I may have to bring back comment registration but hopefully it won’t come to that………
We signed all the paperwork for the house today (and so did the developer) so the house is ours! We now have 5 days to organise the financing…….
Here’s a few pics:
The view