Month: November 2025

We have had some lovely weather here – lots of rain and storms (thunder and lightning) and some lovely sunny days as well. The air conditioner in the living area has also been having a bit of a workout. When it’s on M Kaz closes the door to the wc, the bathroom, my bedroom, mostly closes the door to the laundry (and the Outback … I can just shimmy through) and opens one of the doors to the hall cupboard … all to decrease the size of the area the air conditioning is itcooling. It does seem to work as well because the areas outside the cooling zone are a bit warmer.

Sooz is still running the air conditioner in the bedroom, and the ceiling fan and the Vornado fan (some days). M Kaz was telling M Sooz about the personal/handheld fan she saw at Harvey Norman which when you blow it on your face gives the same face-flapping effect as when someone is parachuting out of a plane. It has slower speeds as well if you just want to be like a dog hanging its head out of a car window. It may be something M Kaz keeps an eye out for in the Black Friday sales in a couple of weeks … I think she would buy it for M Sooz (she really does feel the heat) if she didn’t have to pay the full price of $129.

M Kaz has started moving boxes into the house … there is a small one and a big one at this point – but not so big that M Kaz can’t move the big one – although she did wheel it in on the trolley. I believe she bought the boxes (and the other three big ones in the garage) from IKEA and she’s going to build whatever’s in them. Flat packs. That’s what she called them. But one of them isn’t so flat anymore thanks to my excellent efforts as an apprentice/helper. Who knew she was going to make something that flat into a stool – or is it a small table? I can’t wait to see what she does with the big box and what she makes out of that one (and the other three in the garage if they are the same).

Where is that classical music coming from? It’s 7.30am on Sunday morning and I swear I can hear classical music.  I’m not sure which piece or which composer-but it’s there.  I know it’s not the Mummies because they’re both fast asleep, and one of them is snoring – I’d like to say “gently” but we all know that’s not the case. I’ve had a bit more of a scout around and I now know it’s definitely coming from M Kaz’s phone. It’s her alarm – she used to wake up to the alarm when she was getting up at (or before) dawn to take photographs down at the Broadwater but since she hasn’t been doing that, even though she still sets the alarm, she doesn’t take any notice of it. And, no, I don’t know why she hasn’t been going down to the Broadwater. I don’t think M Kaz knows either, but I did hear her tell M Sooz that she would go down again – starting on Monday (tomorrow). And, no, I did not even think “yeah, right” when she said that.

We were supposed to get big storms yesterday – maybe even a tornado – but that didn’t happen here although they had massive hailstones at a place called Pratten, not far from the Darling Downs Zoo. I hope none of the animals there were as scared as I am when there’s thunder and lightning – very very frightening.

Woohoo – my green rolley toy has made a re-appearance! He was feeling a bit flat but M Kaz put him on to charge and he’s full of energy again, zipping here and there all over the place;  which is all well and good unless you’re starving and waiting for breakfast and you can see the bottom of your food bowl. I left him to it while I went to have some breakfast. I figured if he was hungry he could get himself to the kitchen – I don’t have to carry him there like I do the others.