Crash

We've just recovered from our computer crashing. A nice aquaintance up the road sent us an email with an attachment of a menu for a Christmas get-together for english ex-pats. Normally I would steer clear of this sort of thing. The english en-mass in a foreign country can be just too embarassing. However, in an attempt to broaden our social circle, I am biting the bullet and we are going. (More of this in due course). The point of mentioning this is that I was unable to open the attachment. And...the next morning the operating system on the computer was infected. We ended up wiping all of our information off of the computer. When we saw our 'friend' later he said 'Oh yes, I've had that trouble too!!!!!'

We have had a letter back from the Architect today with an estimate for the renovation of the house and his fees and it wasn't an arm and a leg, it was both arms and both legs!! However this has refocused our minds back to our original idea that we will do as much as possible ourselves. We will renew our effort to find a mini-digger. We have to get proper plans drawn up but then we will either do things ourselves or do our own Project Management. View this space.

It has been raining off and on now for about 5 days and there are lots of soggy leaves everywhere. But we don't mind Autumn starting in the middle of November.