I was really insistent. One email after the other. Three times the workers came the long distance but did only some insufficient and incomplete repair. At last I offered to pay additional fees for proper work. In my opinion the main thing is the mice won't be able to enter the insulation from underneath.

I assume the company hasn't had a customer like me before - someone who is crawling under the house! An Australian wouldn't do it ever. But now I'm satisfied. Even silicone around the pipes.

Only 3.5 hours wait. At 11.30 a.m. the person responsible for reading and sealing the meter arrived.

A last glimpse back.

Back home I resumed my garden work. A couple of weeks ago I purchased a bag with pine chips for mulching my freshly planted trees. 1 bag - ridiculous. The content disappeared in no time. So I went to a supplier and bought a whole ute load (1.5 cubic metre). It disappeared. Now I thought I will be clever (in German: 'nicht kleckern, sondern klotzen') and ordered a truck load of pine chips!
[Notice the name. There are so many German descendants around South Australia, and especially around my place. The builder of the shed is B. Schutz, the earthmover is J. Launer, a settlement nearby is called 'Stendal' a place in Eastern Germany where relatives of mine used to live.]

Now I'm disappearing! I'm shoveling since 2 days and the mountain of chips remains the same.

And there was something else....


Oh yes.....

No more dragging of big boxes with drinkable water (I miss the crystal-clear Wiener Hochquellen Wasser). The plumber was here and installed an under-sink-waterfilter-system:



And....


Ta-ta...




TV again. Watching ABCnews24 and SBS with DW TV.