Arte, you have described the bleh-weekend-without-DH feeling very accurately! What a relief to have the heat on again, I'm not sure I could have coped, and getting that power bill in the midst of not-even-having-heat would totally tip me right over the edge! Make sure you query that, it might be there was an error on the reading of the meter just before you moved in, kwim?

BTW, H was teenager LAST YEAR! So she's fully into teenagerdom now. And she's finally grown herself some boobs... and a bit of interest from boy-teenagerdom too. AAAAAAAAAAAAH (*runs screaming from the room*).

Cass, well done getting L all set on the bum-wiping. Miss E is having a go but maybe her arms are too short or her aim is poor, because I have to wipe afterwards. Luckily we've got another half a year to get it right! When you and Trill are done acquiring the market in Sorbent shares and launched an aggressive merger/takeover of their dunny paper division, remember your ole friend MD.

JM, I can't believe it's been a year already! Are you in Oz right now? How long are you planning to linger on in the jungle? BTW I have been meaning to ask how your book-container project went. Did you end up with enough materials and did they make it ok to the jungle? I've got a new contact in the library world who collects good used school material for sending to places like PNG, so that might be another avenue for getting something useful sent your way.