Easter weekend

Back at work after a long easter weekend. Poor W has lots of homework to do for the Engineering courses she's taking for work. Thankfully these are the last ones, and after July she'll be free to be as lazy as me again.

I spent much of the weekend working on the Christmas light controllers, which are now effectively finished - but totally untested. We did manage to fit in a couple of nice walks by the river with Bingley. Since gettign him we've found a lot of nice walks close by.

We're booked for another two trip with the 4wd club - plus a social evening (Mongolian I think). One of the trip is 4 days volunteering for the Dept of Environment and Conservation - helping fix up an old cattle station. Of course two of those days are the driving too / from. It will be our 1st chance to try out the camping gear.

After the day trip to Wedge Island we realised we'd have a struggle fitting everything in for a longer trip - the boot was virtually full, and that was just for one day! - So we've got a roof rack (or rather roof bars) to give us some more storage area.

M has just bought a new car. He's somehow managed to keep using his Magna for eight years without having it services once, and not really doing any maintenance on it himself. You can imagine how bad it sounded - W and I avoided ever going in it, simply because it didn't sound or look safe. They don't have car M.O.T's here - otherwise it would have been off the road a long time ago. Anyway, he's bought a ncie new X-Trail, and tried to get a trade in on the Magna. The mechanic took one look at it, and told him he couldn't let him drive home in it, because it was so unsafe (he said he expected the wheels to fall off any moment). So all he got was scrap value. Hopefully he'll look after this car a bit better.

We really miss daylight saving - once again it starts getting dark almost as soon as I get home. Bingleys not too pleased, he's always being walked in the dark.