The shade house is half completed, all we are waiting on is the shade cloth to arrive from Brisbane, along with the irrigation, we have 2 layout beds set out with weedmat, the crew did a really good job of it. As I found out, laying out weedmat in 30*C isn’t as much fun as it is in a temperate climate. Everytime we thought we had all the wrinkles out, the mat would heat up a little more and stretch, it ended up being laid twice, once to get the initial stretch out, then the crew went back and lifted the pegs and pulled and re-pegged it all again to get it as flat and wrinkle free as possible. Still a couple of ripples, but we can live with that.
The little truck is finally gone. BJS bought it off us for parts I think, I’d hate to think what it owes them for all the time it has spent in their garage being repaired. Well, being worked on, repaired implies it was fixed and going at some stage. It had to be towed away, despite a new battery etc it still wouldn’t start, and the brakes still don’t work. I would have liked to keep it, if it had been going, I’m getting a slightly bit bored with going to work, coming home, going to work, etc and not being able to get out of Honiara at weekends.
All the new MPs are camped out in the hotels around Honiara now, wheeling and dealing, paying back promises and bribes, trying to come up with enough numbers to form a government and decide on who will be Prime Minister. It should be announced early next week, I’m hearing bits of talk from the crew and around Ba’hai about possible trouble, depending on who gets put in as PM, so I’ll make sure the truck is fuelled up, and I have the cupboards stocked for a few days.
Tiffanys sister bought in some fresh squid today, Tiff didn’t want it, she isn’t all that keen on it and doesn’t have much luck cooking it, so I had chilli stir fried squid with rice for dinner. And very nice it was too. You either cook it very quickly, high heat and spices, or slow casserole, anything in between and you may as well be chewing bicycle tubes. I’ve found marinating it for a few hours in olive oil with garlic and chilli helps keep it tender, but remember to drain the oil off before stir frying.
Late edit, for those interested, the Perseid Meteor shower is expected tonight, and also the conjunction of Venus, Saturn, Mars and the crescent moon will all appear together in a tight circle to the west around sunset.
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