An 'interesting' week

I've been laid low with the 'flu all last week. Shivers and aching bones and a racking cough. I nearly went back to work last Thursday and got dressed but felt pretty feeble and when really loose diarrhoea started (presumably a side-effect of the anti-bionics), I was back in my pyjamas in a flash. I thought I'd be back at work today but had a bad night coughing and spluttering and with the prospect of having to do a desk shift this afternoon I decided it'd be better for me and the Library users of Springwood if I stayed home one more day.

I was out and about on the weekend a little. We finally got a real estate man to come and look at the house and it will be going up for sale very soon so we also went looking at a few houses just to get a feel for what's out there.

There's a house that we loved at Blaxland. (Look here). We can't do anything until we have sold this place so all we can do is hope no-one else likes it before that happens. Everything else we looked at just wasn't big enough or interesting enough for us.

We also rented some space in a self-storage place so we can get rid of some of the STUFF that hangs about the house and clutters it up. We started in Ishbel's room by removing the book cases and put a whole lot of her toys (several boxes of soft toys) in boxes to store away for a while. The old saying "you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette" was in my head all day yesterday. We had 'eggs' all up the walls and all over the floor in her room - I thought we were never going to sort it out. We have done it though and her room is looking much less cluttered. THEN I read in the photographer's guidelines that he usually doesn't bother photographing kids bedrooms unless they are notable in some way! Mind you, all the work is not wasted, the room still needs to look clear and uncluttered for people coming through to view.