No phone!

Our home phone has decided to give up the ghost. What a pain. We don't use it that much anyway BUT internet computers!!!! eck!how can we survive?

We have this little device that we bought to take when we go away in the caravan, not cheap but much cheaper than park fees for wifi. It was $29 and that included 1 gb of data, $30 a month after that. When Les was in hospital, Warren would take it and the laptop when he visited him and he paid $50 for two months, we also used it for two trips away. Then we decided to pay $200 for a full year and the data was 2GB and it rolls over. In hindsight it was a very good thing to do as that is what we are using now.

Phone we can do without but internet is a bit more difficult to be without, just thinking of all those emails to wade through after ten days if we couldn't check them every day.

Yep, its going to be ten days before a techie from Telstra can get here.

Warren thought that he would give me a night off cooking an suggested fish and chips for dinner. He asked me to ring and order and he would walk down and pick it up. I searched for the magnet on the fridge and got the phone before I realized that I could ring, reached for the mobile which is a bit hit and miss in the house. Too much hassle so we drove to Maccas instead.

The morning blues

Snuggled up in bed I was this morning when Warren nudges me and says "That's your alarm", I didn't even hear it. As I didn't have to get out of bed this morning, it wasn't by my bed. I stumbled out of bed to find it. My phone is my alarm clock and it will continue to go off and get louder each time so I knew I needed to find it and turn it off. My handbag was in the kitchen and my phone was inside, as it was a little chilly out from under the covers, I grabbed it and hurried back to bed. Couldn't turn the damned thing off, why? because I have a cover on the phone which is plastic and the plastic had become hard with the cold.

I had to remove the cover to turn the alarm off of course by this time I am almost fully awake and it was only 6.13am. Last week I had to get up at this time to have enough time to leave for work, silly me forgot that the alarm was set for each work day morning.

Fixed that problem and hunkering down for a bit more sleep and Warren is talking to me (unlike me, he wakes wide awake around six every morning, with or without an alarm) then his alarm goes off at 6.30am and the news comes on the radio. Arrrgh! more noise, I just need/want a little bit more sleep.

I did get a little doze in and then decided to get up as my sleep-in had been shot to pieces. Warren left for tennis at eight and I have done the washing, cleaned the kitchen, checked my emails and now the morning is mine to do as

I wish. Fresh orange juice from our tree for breakfast, the above photo was taken a few days ago (afternooon tea last week) but I did squeeze some for brekkie this morning as well as I had time to do it .

This is our orange tree with heaps of oranges as you can see, they are very juicy and sweet this year