Colds

Well it seems I have picked up a cold I have felt crappy all day I even went on a big walk to the beach which is actually easy to get to it took me 10 minutes to get back to the main road from the beach.

I bought some panadol which I think is normal panadol they have many different ones there and alot of nurophen, advil etc. I thought about buying strepcills (sp?) but decided not to as I didn't really need them and it's kinda hard to tell which is the normal one.

You can't get pain killers at the chemist here you have to go to another store that sells them bloody annoying the chemist sells alot of shampoo stuff, toothpaste, tooth brushes, hair dyes, perfumes by the mile and other stuff.

I walked right along the boardwalk and looked at the shops and the beach pavilions ( restaurants, surf shops) they are right on the Beach so when summer comes they will be buzzing with activity.

It was a little breezy walking along the waterfront but wasn't overly cold it was 10 C according to the temperature thing I saw. I walked along the pier which was kinda freaky looking down at all the water and managed to take a couple of pics.

I am on another laptop it was given to me tonight by the father it was the mother's but she is now using his downstairs this one has windows xp so I will have to change the settings for my ipod since I was using windows 2000 on the old crappy one I had.

I have to figure out how to get my photos off the old laptop as the Internet went down before I could get them uploaded the CD player is an attachment so maybe if the battery life is ok I will have to buy a blank CD and load them onto that and send it home or just hang onto it until I come home later in the year.

Last week the children were right little shits mainly the twins either in the morning or at night when it came to bath time one or the other would pack one hell of a hit and not do as they are told by getting dressed with me helping them in the morning and at night getting undressed and having a bath with me supervising I gave up trying to get them to do as they are told as it just never worked.

The mother and I were at our wits end the other night and have started a sticker chart with rules set out eg getting dressed with me in the morning, getting un dressed at night for a bath, no screaming and stomping feet, no crying out for mama at bath time when they don't want to get in the bath.

Whenever they do one of the rules they get a sticker and the one who has the most stickers at the end of the week gets to go to the shop on Frederick Hendricklaan and pick out one lollie.

I tell you the female twin can scream you don't want to be in the bathroom when she lets it rip it's not nice on the old ears.

Fingers crossed that I have Internet access all the time now it's low but still quite fast it's faster than dial up that's for sure.