Daves Inferno... Almost

It finally arrived this morning. After four months of waiting we have a baffle plate in our fireplace. The real estate agent's handy man came by at 7:30am with the new part that's taken so long to arrive in hand... naturally it didn't fit. He did have an alternative one he keeps in the back of his ute which did. Of course this begs the question... if he's had this alternative one sitting in the back of his vehicle all this time, why didn't he try to fit it when he first diagnosed the problem in the first place??? To be fair, he replaced the fan unit in the fireplace too, but again, that was a standard part he had in his ute anyway. Now all we're missing in order to have a lit fire is fireplace paraphernalia, ie: a fire proof bucket, shovel, poker that sort of thing. We're off to get them from a Tasmanian discount chain called "Chicken Feed" on the morrow. Haven't decided if we're going to go to Lonny or St Helens, my vote is for St Helens, we haven't been there since December and Launceston is a regular trip for us. An added bonus to St Helens would be it's closer to Ben Lomond which I'm still keen to visit soon.

I've "spoken" ,well okay exchanged emails, with my chief pre-editor and agreed to a weekly deadline for submissions of revisions and additions. I think having a weekly deadline set to which I'm answerable to someone else will be good for me. It never really helped back in my school days, but that was then, this is now.

Basil managed to get himself two lots of dinner tonight, one from me at around 5:30pm, then again from Paula an hour later. He's been allot quieter tonight than normal, must be all the blood being called on to digest the extra large lump. Of course, it didn't stop him from begging for more from our dinner plates. For once, even Paula didn't give him any table scraps though.

I made lasagne tonight, something I've never done before. Turned out alright too. Especially considering the rather depleted state of the cupboards at the moment, no mushrooms for one thing. Sadly, that may well mean Lonny rather than St Helens for tomorrow after all. St Helens has an IGA, but they're more expensive and with more limited range than Coles or Woolies.