Archive for April, 2007

Planning our Holiday

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Today, I’m going to spend the day planning our holiday to China in October. We’ve got the whole month, so there will be plenty of time to have a look around. We’ve already booked our flights, we did that back in January just using some of the frequent flyer points that we had accumulated. We fly in and out of Beijing, now we just need to figure out what to do while we are there. At this stage, we are planning on sticking to a triangle laid out by Beijing, Shanghai and Xian, but we will see. I don’t want to stick to just the cities, I’d like to be able to see some of the country as well.

On another, related note, I start Chinese lessons at the local TAFE this Wednesday!

Polishing Floors

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

We spent all day yesterday polishing the floors in our house. It’s been six years since we moved in, and in that time, some areas of the floor, mainly those in the direct sunlight, had become a bit oxidised.

We hired a floor polisher and bought some abrasive pads for it, and went to work. Some areas came up really well doing this, and other came up worse, the pads were too abrasive for those areas and it ended up scratching the floor badly. We bought some floor polish and went over the floor with that, and that fixed it, which was a relief. We’ve got just over 100sqm of Jarrah flooring downstairs, so it was a lot of work!