Division of labour
We have had a good day today, making drawers. As part of our furniture shop of last week we acquired 6 sets of them: 2 bedsides for our room (black), 2 bedsides for the spare room (beech), 1 bedside to go under my desk as a desk drawer (beech) and 1 tallboy (large set of chest of drawers) to go in our bedroom (black).
As they were all identical, we managed to establish a good factory line assembling them. Adam Smith would have been proud of us. My speciality was hammering: easy, yet rewarding. We now have to wait 24 hours for the glue to dry and when we get home tomorrow we can put things in them. We can't do this during the day as we are going on a wine tour of the Hunter Valley. I am a bit nervous.
Sean has been busy the last few evenings writing backgammon spreadsheets so I have managed to finish my economics book and read a novel. The novel was called "The Oxford Murders" by Guillermo Martinez. I recommend it to murder mystery readers in general and in particular anyone who thinks Maths is cute. In some ways it reminded me of the TV show we watched while we were in serviced accommodation called "Numbers". This is an American murder mystery series, where all the mysteries are solved by using "Math". Genius. I suspect this show will appeal to other fans of Diagnosis Murder.
The TV is gone now that we have our own place and I am much relieved. Sean had taken to watching a rather nasty reality TV show called "The biggest loser" where contestants battled against each other to lose the most weight and not get voted off. Pretty much everyone on there seemed to be continually unhappy. We watched some good things such as Rabbit Proof Fence (appropriate to being in Australia) a few episodes of The Simpsons and of course Numbers but I much prefer having my evenings back.
I'm clearly not going to get round to creating a panorama of the view so here are the photos I was going to use. You will have to either use your imagination or print them out and assemble them with sticky tape. As you go down the list here you are moving from left to right.
We have had a good day today, making drawers. As part of our furniture shop of last week we acquired 6 sets of them: 2 bedsides for our room (black), 2 bedsides for the spare room (beech), 1 bedside to go under my desk as a desk drawer (beech) and 1 tallboy (large set of chest of drawers) to go in our bedroom (black).
As they were all identical, we managed to establish a good factory line assembling them. Adam Smith would have been proud of us. My speciality was hammering: easy, yet rewarding. We now have to wait 24 hours for the glue to dry and when we get home tomorrow we can put things in them. We can't do this during the day as we are going on a wine tour of the Hunter Valley. I am a bit nervous.
Sean has been busy the last few evenings writing backgammon spreadsheets so I have managed to finish my economics book and read a novel. The novel was called "The Oxford Murders" by Guillermo Martinez. I recommend it to murder mystery readers in general and in particular anyone who thinks Maths is cute. In some ways it reminded me of the TV show we watched while we were in serviced accommodation called "Numbers". This is an American murder mystery series, where all the mysteries are solved by using "Math". Genius. I suspect this show will appeal to other fans of Diagnosis Murder.
The TV is gone now that we have our own place and I am much relieved. Sean had taken to watching a rather nasty reality TV show called "The biggest loser" where contestants battled against each other to lose the most weight and not get voted off. Pretty much everyone on there seemed to be continually unhappy. We watched some good things such as Rabbit Proof Fence (appropriate to being in Australia) a few episodes of The Simpsons and of course Numbers but I much prefer having my evenings back.
I'm clearly not going to get round to creating a panorama of the view so here are the photos I was going to use. You will have to either use your imagination or print them out and assemble them with sticky tape. As you go down the list here you are moving from left to right.
posted by Zoe at 3:20 PM
1 Comments:
Dear Sean & Zoe,
Here is a link to a graph of the Australian Dollar against the British pound over the period since you left.
It shows the Australian Dollar has lost 5% of its value since you arrived in Australia.
Since Zoe is currently telecommuting to England every day the effect is probably caused by Sean.
I will leave it up to you both whether you apologise to the Australian Prime Minister. But here are his contact details just in case.
By the way the blog is very nice. The picture of ice cream was probably the best part so far.
Lots love,
Andy
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