jane decorated a mini cake at her crafty chicks evening last night. so we did more birthday cake singing this evening and the week of my birthday is officially over.
i had a busy day at work again which is good, and sounds like the girls did too. i met everyone at swimming after work so jane could go home and get on with life whilst i read books on my ipad until swimming was over. then it was dinner and half of March of the Penguins on a stuttery DVD (second half saved for another time)
the house we rented until last weekend was up for auction yesterday. we got some feedback from the nice estate agent who sold us this house (and who works for the same firm). apparently no one bid over $500K which is waaaay below the official valuation and even waaaaayer below the price the owners originally asked us for. Clearly the leakiness factor was priced in to people’s bids and we did exactly the right thing by not pursuing things once we’d read the building report.
we did have a nice email from the letting agency though thanking us (well jane) for cleaning the house so nicely so that’s good. we’ve got a form to fill in to get our bond back which will be handy.
are you interested in the exchange rate? i am. in fact i’m a little obsessed. when we came over for our reccy trip it was about $2.80 to the pound and people said that was poor. since then it’s gone down hill (literally) and earlier this week it hit an all time low of $1.86 to the pound.
anyway, things bounced back a little yesterday and today. so that’s handy.
goodbye