Highs and Lows

Achievements:

• Getting my New South Wales driver's licence with entitlement to ride a motorcycle!
• Sorting out temporary (and immediate) contents insurance for the house
• The dishwasher has finally been installed AND plumbed in AND the leaky tap has been fixed and it works
• Michael and I have a new bed - no more sleeping on the mattress for us!
• Toby's home!!!
• Patrick's been to his first fencing session and enjoyed it
• Michael and Patrick are out tonight at the Bellingen Jazz Club, about 25kms from here, listening to two of Australia's best jazz trumpeters (well done Sara for carefully reading the local rag)
• Yesterday Michael and I took Ella to visit the local Montessori pre-school which is conveniently located about 1km away, next to the primary school she will be starting at in January, and she's enrolled for 3 days per week starting next week
• We've encountered some of the neighbours, including Clinton, Tracie and their son Anton and dog (poodle/terrier cross?) who only moved in opposite us three weeks ago

Downers:

• The really, really, REALLY important envelope that has accompanied us thusfar with ALL of our birth/marriage/change of name/naturalisation documents in it has gone missing...
• The cockroaches have started visiting our house
• I've found not one, but TWO paralysis ticks crawling on Ella - presumably having jumped off Toby after his perambulations in the neighbourhood. I really don't like them...
• My laptop is playing up