Nights

Nicole starts a set of long nights tonight designed too build up enough excess hours to have a week off next week, for when James and Jane turn up.

I hope she can last the distance... fifty-six hours in one week is a lot of hours and quite a sacrifice to make.

Other than that, it's Ekka day on Wednesday. Ekka is the Queensland equivalent of the Suffolk Show, expect there's a public holiday to go along on one day out of it's week-long-or-so run. So that's the day to avoid then, it'll be horiffically crowded. We'll probably go on Thursday or Friday when Nicole finishes her nights.

However it means we've had to move swimming forward a day and will now be going tomorrow.

Unfortunately this afternoon Eloise has developed an intermittently swollen eye, which may or may not be conjunctivitis (of which there has apparently been a case at Nursery).

So we'll have to see how we go on that one.

Other than that we've been in contact with the bank today, who between them and the police seem absolutely determined not to investigate in any meaningful way the fraudulent use of Nicole's card. They won't ask the police to investigate anything until 1) all the transactions have completed; 2) they've compiled a document; 3) they've sent it to us; 4) Nicole has signed and returned it. By which time any CCTV evidence will no doubt have been deleted by the relevant retail outlets.

Added to which as part of the card replacement policy (in theory, allegedly and reportedly) they have unapologetically double-charged as much as they can to our account for unfathomable reasons with a "don't worry mate she'll be apples" type reassurance.

Great.