I again went to see my sleep man down in Melbourne, but we left early morning and didn't return to Kyneton until 6.30 pm, stopping off to see our son, going to Bunnings at Sunbury, having lunch, taking Jules to have a cut and trim (she's *beep* off with the Kyneton salons) and stopping to see our good friend Sheryl,

All in all it was a good day, although we had to go through our son's despair over his car, as some *beep* threw a metal star dropper through the front window so that the vehicle is undrivable. The window has had it, and the car is hardly worth repairing. The passenger side front window has also been smashed, the clutch needs replacing, and several other key parts of the car are shot. It has all made Nick somewhat sour towards the world...,which is really not Nick at all. And there's little we can do to help. It's at moments like this I would like to be able to hand him $20K and tell him to trot out and buy another vehicle.

Bunnings was OK, and we purchased 20 metres of wire mesh to nail along the back fence so that creepers can easily grow up it.

And my sleep man was fine, although on several points we failed to see eye to eye. He tried dissecting every element of my wood carting in to the lounge room fire each day.....a chore that makes me somewhat fatigued. But it didn't matter how he examined this chore, there was no way it could be simplified! I think he was determined to find a better way, but after an hour of breaking the chore down,....chopping palings with a tomahawk to make kindling (chopping, stooping, carrying the kindling some 20 metres to the lounge room fire), carrying heavy logs 2-3 at a time the same distance into the fire, (stooping, lifting, carrying, putting the logs down again after walking the 20 metres).... .he gave up. Not that I minded.

Carting wood indoors does fatigue and tire me, but as I said to this guy, "the activity is good for me, and while it causes fatigue, the more I do it the less fatigued I may eventually become."

So he reluctantly agreed.

Moochie the dog went crazy when we eventually returned home. And after dinner and a wine or three we watched "The Bachelor" which we both like. I know it's trashy TV, but sometimes a bit of trash goes well with the ABC which we tend to watch 85 percent of the time.