It has been pouring with rain all day. So I squashed some of my friend, Julie's, delicious Cherry Tomatoes into the herb patch. Hopefully we'll have a big bush of them before summer.

The backyard is fully soaked, the frogs have been busy, our pond is full of tadpoles. They are accompanied by about five blue-eyes who are hopefully tucking into the mozzie larvae. I expect if we get a few more rainy days the frogs will really start making a fabulous racket. A few months ago we had a skinny little frog who liked to hide behind the back door and do his "CRO--AK..yup I'm over here girls...CR--OAK". The door was an excellent amplifier and it sounded like he was as big as a Cane Toad. Oh dear... it just occurred to me that those are probably his offspring in the pond.

You'll be glad to know that the wireless internet has been up and running for a while now. So if you are already staying at one of the apartments or planning a visit, crank up your computer and connect to the 'sawtellbeach' wi-fi!

First of all an apology, I rather brilliantly had the contact page secured against anyone using it. Sorry to the 5 people this week who tried to use it - I'm a dill.

Having decided to go for the abysmally fastest ADSL available in Sawtell (1500/256 to us nerds), I needed a phone line. This involved chasing my tail for a few weeks trying to figure out who was responsible and who'd be paying etc. I think it is starting to move now, I have a phone engineer fixing up the phone line, once he is done I just need to get Telstra to connect the line.... urg.

Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out my final choice on the hardware to connect everyone up....

...watch this space.

Christmas and Australia day have swooshed by and now here we are well into 2007. My job at the Uni is flat out as all the students puzzle over their new timetables and the staff suddenly realise there is work to be done.

Leigh from the executive committee has asked me to find out about installing broadband in the apartments. So I have researched the hardware and the vendors am now trying to prod some people into action. Hopefully we can get some sort of Wireless LAN sharing a speedy connection up and running soon.

Tomorrow I'm going to be at the surf club helping my partner, Cheri. She is hosting the inaugural Coffs Double Helix Club Meeting. Hopefully I'll get a surf afterwards.