The Monday with working from home with the air con repairer coming

 Hi,

I took no photos yesterday. None. Hopefully Mike took some!

Well, I have photos of our prepped-up bikes,
ready for our Aotea Great Barrier Island adventure

That drybag on the back looks a bit tenuous

And surgically installed into Tom's Mondeo.
"Retrieving and reassmbling them will be non trivial" he says.

Worked from home and had the Wasabi air con chap (Nate) turn up to assess our heat pump in the lounge.

Yeah - he said the outside unit's circuit board was fried. And that no one made that part anymore. So he had to check if a new board would fit into the old board's location.

No.

And then he checked the piping from the inside unit to the outside unit. No. He can't re-use that. So he will need to reroute pipes through the upstairs wardrobe. 

The final analysis? A quote is coming to us for an entire new system. Inside and out. Oh.

After work Jon and Chris turned up, and Mike got home as I was scratching around for more conversation to keep it all going as they sat in our lounge. I was not expecting them. Thought it was Mike at the front door when they came. 

Mike had exciting stories of his commute home (yes really). He got off his bus and walked partway home because traffic was banked up around Karori Tunnel for some reason. Grabbed a second bus ... that made it about 1km before a sharp smell of burning rubber and brakes made the driver go take a look ... to see smoke pouring out of one of the back wheels. "Everyone off and catch the bus behind me" he wisely said. Mike started walking again, before flagging down a third bus for the last kilometre home. 

The sight of an empty road at the end of the tunnel,
with people in hi-viz vests waving vaguely at the drivers,
was enough to convince Mike to get off and walk. 

It's not normally that exciting. But I like my bike, none of those dramas when I'm in control of my own destiny.

By the time Mike finished his story it was dinner time, so we got Burger Wisconsin in for dinner for us all. No cooking needed. Woot. 

Jon and Chris will be in St Arnaud by now as they were catching the 2am ferry over to Picton and heading there. Hope it is not as wet as here!

We have Dave coming today to get the final things done in the house. Stairs might be finished soon. And we have new mirrors to put in the bathrooms. 

Could be almost done for the inside of the house by the time Dave is done. Fingers crossed.

Have a great day.

Love,

Angela