El and I have just blitzed the flat, and let me tell you it needed it.
We have now collapsed in a heap and I am off to bed shortly, but not before I make the most of the wonderful Internet and type a quick blog to you all.
I feel I must update you to the post peril.
Firstly I must say I have not been disappointed, such great volumes of post have been flooding into the mail box and I am busy replying to each. It is a great pleasure to sit in the evenings and pen my response. Today however brought a new dimension into the postal world.
The post box had flooded.
Very bad design, it's a small ( and I mean small ) grey painted metal box with a hinge lid, a number 4 on the front and a small slit for the postman to post through. As the actual box sits on the inside of our gate it is difficult for post poachers ( though not impossible) to steal the post.
Such is it's design, when we had the torrential rain on Saturday it filled 15cm of the box with rain water, and short of drilling a hole in the bottom ( or using the soup ladle ) there is very little I can do about it.
Tomorrow I am going to buy a sponge.
I wished dad was here, he'd have a solution worked out in a jiffy, El suggested I syphon it out with a straw.....I think she is just taking the mick as she knows I have become slightly post orientated since our arrival... I enclose below an actual email that was sent to me at work, it had ,me in floods of hysterical tears, more so because not a single other person got the joke...
Maybe it is just me...I think my mum might be tickled by it!!
Enjoy xx
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 4:21
Subject: Level 4
To all MSC staff,
The hole outside the lifts on level 4 is currently being repaired.
You can still access the floor, lifts and toilets but please be careful around the workman and his equipment.
Thanks
MSC Administration and Facilities Supervisor
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Hello Lovely ones. It's as if the rain has struck at your heart - aiming straight for your postbox like that - when you have such high expectations of it on a daily basis. Perhaps you should get the workman and his equipment from level 4 to call round to your sad and sopping little grey postbox and drill a hole or do something equally wonderful with it so that your treasure remains in tip top condition. I'm so glad I enclosed my letter in the sturdy, dry and warm lap top crate. Mind you, it sounds as if that may well have been man handled rather impersonally and probingly at the Melbourne Postal Department. Detain and search. Ooooh it doesn't bear thinking about. Glad you've got the laptop at home now. You can blog and surf to your hearts content.
Lots of love Kitty xxxx
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