I started work on the laundry. I removed the old sink and prepared to install the new one. Unfortunately, I had a problem with the assembly. A screw seized in the nut and I was unable to remove it without destroying the drain. I will have to get a replacement from Tamworth. Meanwhile we can't use the laundry so I will have to go tomorrow. I just hope the plumber doesn't turn up while I'm away.
We watched the last round of the golf in the afternoon.
I was up very early and was on the road at seven o'clock. The weather report was for a very hot day in Tamworth so I planned to be back before the heat of the day. I got everything done early but had to wait around for the photos Jean had brought back from San Francisco, which I had put in for printing. I was back in time for lunch.
I had been given a replacement for the piece of plumbing which had failed so I completed the installation of the laundry sink.
Jean was ill after lunch, apparently from food poisoning, so I looked after her for the rest of the day.
We saw the doctor in the morning. Jean's chest is getting better. The doctor was a bit puzzled by the nausea and vomiting as the cause wasn't obvious. The medication might have been a contributing factor so she gave Jean an injection of Maxolon. This didn't help too much as Jean was sick again after lunch.
I asked the doctor about my trigger finger which is getting worse with the passing of the months. She offered cortisone injections or a referral to the orthopaedic surgeon in Tamworth. I rang his rooms and found that the earliest I could get a consultation would be next October. I decided to try the cortisone injections instead.
Jean was feeling a bit better but she went back to lie down after breakfast and didn't surface till supper time. At Rachel's suggestion, I made some junket so that she could eat something other than porridge and dry toast.
I did some odd jobs which were urgent but it was too hot to do any serious work. Let me say though that I saw our motorhoming neighbour, John Samin, on the roof of his new extension working hard despite the heat.
Jean was a good deal better this morning which is a great relief. I was so full of energy that I started to trim the hedge which had grown a great deal while we were away. I say started because the heat of the day got the better of me and I had to leave it only half done. I found another burst of enthusiasm and did the second half of the job leaving just the final trim. Elsie May. our next door neighbour, came with the ute to take the clippings away so I had to finish the job and help her load up the ute.
I managed to move the laundry sink into its proper place. I tried to fix the hole in the floor with some quick cement but the cement set before I got to apply it. We learn something new every time we do a job for the first time.
I woke up to the sound of rain on the roof. I had to go out to shut the bathroom hatches on the Motley. While I was out I checked that the pipe feeding the roof run-off to the tank was working properly. Elsie May had said that, while we were away, she had noticed that the down pipe had come adrift and she had asked Dave, the next door neighbour from the other side to fix it.
We both went to the doctor in the morning. Jean was happy to hear that her blood the results showed that she was really on the mend. I told the doctor that the earliest the orthopaedic surgeon would see me was next October and that I thought it better to try a cortisone injection in my trigger finger. She arranged to do it early on Monday morning at the hospital.
I spent about an hour early in the morning surfing the net using up some of the time remaining for the month. When I returned from buying the papers, I found a dean Blue-tongue Lizard on the front verandah. It had been disembowelled, presumably by a dog, and left for me to clean up.
Jean had decided that she was well enough to go to Brisbane for Xmas. I spent most of the day loading the Motley in preparation for a Monday departure.
Jean did a load of washing but the weather was a bit wet and dry so it got hung on the clothes rack. I took it into the sun but it got blown about too much so it finished up on the front verandah out of the rain and the wind. In the afternoon, I did a complete backup of the new iBook onto the old iBook hard drive.
The bad weather had gone and the day was bright and clear though it was much cooler than it was earlier in the week. The day was filled with more Motley loading.
At afternoon tea time, we went to see the Samins to wish them farewell and a happy Xmas.