Day 189: In the wet

Today was a bit of a grey day. The girls went off to camp with coats and (a bit unnecessarily really) fleeces on. In fact temperatures reached the low 70s, so it was far from cold - but not what we've become used to over the last couple of weeks. Despite the modest temperatures, we still had a spell of stormy weather - fortunately now that we can get our cars (yes both of them!) in the garage, we didn't have to do the wet dash to the front door.

The girls still had a nice time at camp and they managed to go outside during a break in the weather. I finished off the unfinished furniture, bought a car seat for Exile #4 so that I can drop the girls at camp tomorrow and Exile #2 can pick them up (a dry-run for September's school travel arrangements).

This evening we had a call from the furniture shop saying that one of the fabrics we had chosen for our sofas has been deleted and they haven't quite got enough. After considering going back to the shops to start again, we ended up going in and choosing two new fabrics. In looking for furniture shops we might have missed the first time round, Exile #2 noticed that the yellow pages is not quite the same here. For one thing there are several of them - for the different phone companies. Also they advertise things that we put up with in the UK, but rarely go out of our way to buy. One category is "Sodding Equipment and Supplies". It comes after "Sod and Sodding Services". Even knowing that they call turf 'sod' here I still found this amusing (in a schoolboy 'Good King Wenceslas' sort of way). Then again, even knowing that we call it 'turf', the high-street presence of 'Turf Accountants' might have the power to surprise an unsuspecting visitor.