We can't get everything right

Yay! I finished a set of curtains today. (A set equals 14 curtains.) This is a project that should have been finished months ago but that Stupid Shop with no Service misinformed me, mucked up my order and then, last week, realised that the fabric had been discontinued. I was furious but settled down to take positive action: a quick trip to Brisbane visiting four of their stores yielded sufficient fabric to complete the project. (That was after they had tried to source it from their other stores!!!!)

I have decided to send the electric spinning machine that I inherited down to my sister-in-law in Canberra. I had great plans to resurrect my interest in spinning but it's become obvious that time is not on my side. She will put it to better use and I still have my traditional wheel which I would rather use anyway. (If and when I find time.)

They still haven't been able to find out what's wrong with our 4WD which spent most of last week at the dealers under observation. We collected it again on Saturday and then at 6am on Sunday it died again - only 300m from home. A mechanic friend called in this morning and it started straight away! The mechanic from the dealer is making a house call tomorrow morning and we're hoping the car won't start. (Did I say that? Why do we nearly always have intermittent problems with our things?)