Don Campbell, a 63-year-old former policeman who receives a carer's pension to look after his wife, said he spent $11,000 to fit solar panels to the roof of his Port Macquarie home on the NSW mid-north coast.
The following is my response to the above.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Thursday, August 20, 2009
It blowing a gale here at the minute
the wind is really picking up and we even have warnings going on the internet saying not to got out unless it really necessary.
think we'll have lunch on campus today.
Very quiet here.
Michael rang last night and told us he was going up to png next week. Truly wish he wasn't, hopefully all will be ok.
Carol got stuff on ebay but it hasn't sold as yet so fingers crossed for her it will sell. She doesn't need the stuff so may as well get rid of it.
Next week I'm having Friday off and we're going down towards Gippsland to try the caravan out in preparation for our trip to Mt Isa at the end of September.
Picking Uncle Mac and Lorna up from Tullamarine tomorrow at 11.45 they have been over in Perth and other parts of WA for the past 2 months so I'm guessing they are looking forward to coming home.
thats all.
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think we'll have lunch on campus today.
Very quiet here.
Michael rang last night and told us he was going up to png next week. Truly wish he wasn't, hopefully all will be ok.
Carol got stuff on ebay but it hasn't sold as yet so fingers crossed for her it will sell. She doesn't need the stuff so may as well get rid of it.
Next week I'm having Friday off and we're going down towards Gippsland to try the caravan out in preparation for our trip to Mt Isa at the end of September.
Picking Uncle Mac and Lorna up from Tullamarine tomorrow at 11.45 they have been over in Perth and other parts of WA for the past 2 months so I'm guessing they are looking forward to coming home.
thats all.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
How life can change
Le-Anne has been working for an architect for the past few months and I think is doing quite well. She was to have her performance review last week and although he was very pleased with her work he didn't give her a wage increase. She was bitterly disappointed. Even said if it had been a $1.00 she would have been happy. What a difference a week makes today he spoke to her and has increased her hourly rate by $2.50 this adds up to a substantial amount over time so now she's very happy.
Tonight she is at her interior design course, which Andrew the architect paid for. This was very generous of him to pay for the course.
There are apparently going to be changes in the uni over the next twelve months. I only hope they offer packages because my hand will be straight up. Perhaps it will go in my favour being one of the lowest levels there.
Uncle Mac and Lorna come back from Perth this coming weekend. Alan and I will be picking them up from the airport and will take them back to Traralgon.
Also did a cooking course at William Angliss last weekend and have now booked into the Christmas one that is run a month before Christmas. I'm really looking forward to that.
Tonight she is at her interior design course, which Andrew the architect paid for. This was very generous of him to pay for the course.
There are apparently going to be changes in the uni over the next twelve months. I only hope they offer packages because my hand will be straight up. Perhaps it will go in my favour being one of the lowest levels there.
Uncle Mac and Lorna come back from Perth this coming weekend. Alan and I will be picking them up from the airport and will take them back to Traralgon.
Also did a cooking course at William Angliss last weekend and have now booked into the Christmas one that is run a month before Christmas. I'm really looking forward to that.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Had an interesting day yesterday
Went to Dandenong Market with Le-Anne and then came home and started preparing tea.
Initially I was going into the city with Janette but her day ended up being pretty full on so we decided to forgo that little adventure until another day.
In the late afternoon she rang and said she was absolutely buggered and wouldn't be coming. I then in my wisdom said yes you are I've cooked home made soup and have a couple of racks of lamb in the oven. Anyway about an hour later I thought I was pretty rude demanding she come when she was so tired. So I was ringing her to apologise for being so rude and to say go home because she was so tired. As I was ringing her I spotted her car coming up the road and as I walk out to meet her she got out of her car and gave me a bunch of beautiful purple iris's an apologised for being so rude. So in the end she came in had a rest and had a lovely meal (the best I had cooked for ages) and went home. So a good day was had by all.
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Initially I was going into the city with Janette but her day ended up being pretty full on so we decided to forgo that little adventure until another day.
In the late afternoon she rang and said she was absolutely buggered and wouldn't be coming. I then in my wisdom said yes you are I've cooked home made soup and have a couple of racks of lamb in the oven. Anyway about an hour later I thought I was pretty rude demanding she come when she was so tired. So I was ringing her to apologise for being so rude and to say go home because she was so tired. As I was ringing her I spotted her car coming up the road and as I walk out to meet her she got out of her car and gave me a bunch of beautiful purple iris's an apologised for being so rude. So in the end she came in had a rest and had a lovely meal (the best I had cooked for ages) and went home. So a good day was had by all.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Everything arrived at the same time.
Le-Anne kept us up to date as to what was happening with Rebecca and then around 10.00 pm last night both cars pulled into the drive way. It had been a big drive from the south east but apart from being a bit tired Rebecca and the kids were fine.
then in the middle of everything Janette rang to see if we have power we did she didn't so I did suggest she come out here for the night - she declined but the offer was there.
also Carol rang to say that they had sold their house, lots of 8's in the final price. The people once they had signed the papers jumped on a plane for Hong Kong and most likely wont be back for 12 months. Carol is quite excited but she thinks Geoff is a bit stunned. Good on them is what i say. its time for a change.
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then in the middle of everything Janette rang to see if we have power we did she didn't so I did suggest she come out here for the night - she declined but the offer was there.
also Carol rang to say that they had sold their house, lots of 8's in the final price. The people once they had signed the papers jumped on a plane for Hong Kong and most likely wont be back for 12 months. Carol is quite excited but she thinks Geoff is a bit stunned. Good on them is what i say. its time for a change.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Rebecca, Kate and Luke coming today
This is the first trip Rebecca has made over to visit us since she was a little girl. Should be fun and we're all looking forward to it. I should be able to add some photos after the visit.
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Its been raining
What excitement yesterday! A massive big black cloud was travelling up from the south and then bang, the heavens opened. I'm not sure how much rain we had but it certainly looked good. Alan and Le-Anne were outside taking photos of the amount of water that was coming from the house. Check out the photo.
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