Winter might be heading off for a holiday but it will not be going quietly. The forecast is for rain and a bit of wild weather. The trouble with weather like this is that it tends to make a fellow feel homesick – (yes, I come from Scotland) I’ve only been here for 25 years so I’m a relative newcomer. The Refrigeration Engineers are supposed to be coming today to install the new split level air-conditioner system. The current system decided to give up the ghost – or whatever a/c systems do – and die on me. It was going to cost XX to repair and XX+x to put in a new system. The Insurance Company were not too happy and paid out, but only if we got the new system because the old system is just on the ten years and they are reluctant to insure any system that is more than ten years old. At the moment we are using an electric heater and thus far it cast cost an arm and a leg in power bills.
In my previous post I made mention of phILOFAXY and posted a photograph of my Scanda. This will be retired at the end of this year and it you look at the photograph you will see to the left of the Scanda what looks like another Filofax- it is. This is my “Filofax in waiting” This is the Filofax that will replace my Scanda – Cuban Zip 
Personal. Out of the picture, to the right, sits a Cuban Zip A5, which stays there and I work between the two. I think, regardless of what I said the other day, if anyone uses an Organiser of any kind, you should look at phiLIOFAXY because there are some really interesting things, helps and tips on there. Filofax is just not popular where I am and I am probably about the only person who uses one, thus there are no supplies in this region and everything I want has be to brought from the UK or the USA. Unlike the people on the blog, I can’t go down to the local Stationery Shop and I would kill for a WHS ( which I remember with fondness) People use a diary but not an organiser, so it is possible to pick up any range of diary, from Academic to Household Shopping, but not get inserts for a Filofax. David Jones, in Adelaide used to stock supplies and a range of Filofaxes but these days their range is very limited and inserts thin on the ground. The photograph above is the Cuban Filofaxes – the front one being the Personal and the rear one the A5 and yes the Personal is sitting open and flat..
The engineers have arrived and are working on installing the new AC System. At least it’s not raining and even if it were, the AC Unit is under the carport anyway, so they would get some shelter. I’ve just left them to it as they move in and out of the house. The only good thing about winter is that you can leave the door open and not be invaded by flies while you slowly freeze to death. Have to love Australian country towns – 20,000 people, 50 million flies.
As you can gather I have not been doing a lot of work in the garden. Tomatoes are coming along nicely as are my new venture in Purple Carrots. Don’t really know if I like the idea of Purple Carrots but I thought I would give it a try. Parsley seems to have taken over the herb garden, overpowering the Mint and other odds. Just as well I like parsley. Most of the roses are doing well. I think I have lost a few and it’s too late to replace them now. If I were heading off to Adelaide anytime soon, I would most likely still get some to replace the dead ones, but not here. If you ever hear that the world is coming to an end – come to South Australia; everything takes fifty years to get here.
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