It's turned bitterly cold this week and we've all had to drag out heaters and extra blankets. Last week we enjoyed 24 degree days and this week is down to 12 and 0 in the mornings. It's hard to take. Last winter I thought about investing in a new heater, and it might be time to do just that. We have gas, but it's old and has no fan and the kids sit right in front of it in the mornings and of course nobody else can feel the warmth. Not good.
Alex is staying at his Dad's tonight, who is leaving next week to live in Moree. I'm sure the kids will miss him. Can't say the same myself though.
As usual, work has been pretty hectic. I had to find all the subdivisions since 2002 and work out how many extra lots had been created, then find out if they're still vacant or a house has been put there. I admit I was feeling overwhelmed by the task. This afternoon I sat down with our Building Surveyor, and we went through them together, looking at the maps, then the parish maps, then the new deposited plans to decide what actually happened, eg. how many lots were created or whether it was a boundary adjustment, or consolidation, and by the time I left tonight we'd nearly got through the lot. So it's true what they say: two heads are better than one. What I thought would take me a month will have taken less than a day. I procrastinated for a week before I finally got in and started it though - a bad habit of mine.
I still have another couple of large tasks that have been put on the back-burner and now I can get stuck into them. One is the annual reporting to the Department of Planning. They want to know every detail of the developments that have been approved for the previous financial year. This year they're asking us to do a trial run and give them the first 6 months of 2007-2008. It was due today, but hey, what are they going to do?
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