vicky and gaz: Sunday 25th March

This week has flown. Work is very laid back about what hours i want to work...im even contemplating extending my hours on a thursday to do a late night surgery as a big request from patients is to have appointments after they finish work...i said ill give the extended hours a trial period. Im really enjoying work...the money is just a bonus but I'm loving every thing about private practice. The patients really appreciate you and are so polite! I have given myself half hour for check ups because that gives me enough time to do all i have to get done as well as being able to relax and have a chat with every patient about their day, this that and the other. Im a little bit sceptical about some of the work i have been given to do by a previous dentist as fillings have been marked down...yet when i look at the tooth, i can't see a reason as to why the tooth needs to be filled. Im morally only going to do what needs to be done, i earn enough without trying to find extra work to do on people!!!

Gaz still hasn't had much luck on the computer. He's going through a bit of a bad patch.

Yesterday our neighbour, jack, came over to our house to let us know that he had cut our hedge back. Gaz was meant to be doing it next week with him but he said it had been annoying him and he just wanted to get it done. for some stupid reason, whoever designed these houses made it so that poor jack has to go through our back garden to put his bins out. He said he put them out the other day and a funnel web latched onto him as he came through our gate. Jack had put the clippings in apple on the floor and had kindly offered to clear them up and put them in his bin. i beat him to it this morning, i was up at 8am so i was out the back clearing away the hedge clippings. I got the house pipe and began squirting through the thick cobwebs hanging from our house. i didn't expect to find so many spiders!!! Big ones, small ones, poisonous ones, deadly ones and HUGE GOLF BALL SIZED ONES!!! look up a 'garden orb spider'. huge things and they make these very large webs in-between trees and the webs are so fine, you don't even know its there...unless your like me and you walk into it. gross. This orb spider was so big that when i washed it off of the house, you could hear it as it smacked the floor!!! I gave a loud shriek as one spider landed on me, dropped the hose pipe that began waving around uncontrollably on the floor like a manic cobra and then composed myself whilst looking around to make sure no one just saw. Our house win infested with red back spiders...the nice thing about red backs (if 'nice' is the right word) is that at least you can identify them! Funnel webs...not entirely sure what they look like other than i know for our far tour house has them and i probably washed a few away today. Funnily enough, i asked gaz to help me with the garden and his reply was 'i aint going any where near that place until the pesticide people have sprayed it all tomorrow'. i must have been crazy. Jack came over to tell me how good the garden was looking!

After tackling the garden i did another blitz around the house as the cleaners we had were pretty rubbish so i went over everything again. Gaz and i went for an evening stroll on the beach and we were talking to some people catching yabbis to use as their fish bait tomorrow. They had this long metal pump that they used to pump up the sand and then they grabbed the pinky orangey yabbis that were sucked to the surface. The woman offered gaz to hold one...i was amazed at how big they ate with huge lobster like pincers. The seagulls were hovering around catching the odd yabbi that the people missed poaching.

I have taken a few pictures of the house as not everyone has seen it yet...

Our house :)