Golden Wednesday

 I'm on the phone to the bank when Robyn arrives. Trying to find $13,000. Kirk thinks I've paid it. I thought it was on my to do list but feel like I've won Lotto, though I have to confirm. It takes a while, mainly because the bank person needs me to tell her how to collate the payments. We get there in the end, then I check where the money was paid from. Not the usual account and I remember one occasion I went in and got Sue to do a payment. She did it from a different account and, when I look, there it is. Confirmed. I feel lighter. That amount would take me close to a year to pay back. And it will buy me a decent EV once I get sick of nursing Auntie Cora, Suzuki, along the road.

I show Robyn round and we look at where to put the first light fitting I bought. From a Turkish man in the Tannery. I had thought it wouldn't work but when I got it out of the box I remembered why I bought it. It's pretty. It will change the laundry up. I put stuff on Marketplace then drive to Interior Effects to collect two temporary door handles- Covid means I can't get the extra matching handles. First world problem. The hold up seems to be shipping. We're a small country at the end of the world and don't have the market to be a priority, it seems. There's over 3,000 people a day dying in the US and the UK and Europe are back in lockdown. We're in our own, unaffected bubble. Unreal. I call next door and Neil has finished the shelf brackets. I love them. He's proud.

I return a light shade to Lighthouse. I've finally got the strategy right- borrow and see if it works. Another afternoon of unpacking, and Kahu finishes the ugly fence. It looks better but when I can afford it, I'm probably going to buy trellis. It will be $1,000, that's why Grant bunged this version up. His side looks fine. But it works. Kahu starts an early shift. I swim and visit Armana. Or rather collapse and have a small moe on her couch. I'm so tired.