It's been forever

A couple of friends were kind enough to notice that I haven't posted for ages and this is because I lost my camera. Inexcusably. And irritatingly enough it happened just as real progress has been made. Of course I still have my iPhone but I've been useless at remembering to carry it as well as my local phone and, in any case, I then had to work out how to share them.

I think I've figured this out now as there will be even more progress in my absence (from Friday) and I wanted to capture what it is like now. However, you'll have to click here for the latest pictures as I don't seem to have posted them to my account and so can't embed it. If you have any idea how to fix this please let me know!

Swings and Slides

There has been great progress on the house in the last few days. I've got used to having water and
electricity (well, mostly having electricity) and am even blasé about having hot water showers now.

The internet appears to be working correctly at last (although what package I'm on and how much it costs appears to be a big secret).

The puppies are growing nicely and will be having their next set of vaccinations early in the week. Elle has suffered no long-lasting ill effects from having Brayen's scooter sat down on her paw. Dee continues to be the much naughtier of the two and so getting great use out of the hang-dog look she has made her own. Both are learning to sit and come when called.

The house is now perfectly functional and, even if things aren't painted or covered, they are there.

Outside it's a different story as the work being done on shelves, screens, tables and, of course, the fence continues. So we're back into building site mode for a little while at least.

At the end, however, it'll be worth it I hope. And soon we'll be able to get the swing fixed and the slide and ladder into the lagoon sorted out. I'll post pictures when it happens!

Btw, I don't think the captions come out on the photos if I embed them like this so if you want to see the album you can click here. 

A photo montage update

So, it turns out that Shiny's internet package was not all it could have been and that, on the 19th July or thereabouts, I ran out of "internet juice". It took us some time to realise this was the issue and then upgrading was difficult because the account was still in Shiny's name and changing it took some time too. Those of you who know me well can imagine how much I've hated not being able to use the internet freely. We're now back to normal service it seems although I'm not sure how long for at the moment as I don't really understand how much juice I use or even how to find out. Any ideas?

Anyway, rather than write a long post, I thought I'd share some photos of what's been going on and, of course, the rapidly growing and very cute puppies.