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Today is the first day of this week that my muscles aren't unusually sore. Earlier this week I was dirty, I had scraped knees, all sorts of dirt beneath my fingernails and a unhealthy odour followed me round like a bad smell. I've been happy though. I've achieved something that I've been trying to do for about 6 weeks now, and to have completed it I'm very satisfied. I've laid the turf at the centre and it is now, even as I write this, taking root and making the playground a fun and safe place to be again.
The bobcat arrived at a quarter to 7 on Monday morning and right away he was into it. Doing wheelies, spinning on a dime, pulling down trees, destroying gardens, breaking fence posts and digging up the ground. It was awesome. His name was Brad, and he liked to have fun in a bobcat. Who doesn't? He moved 6 truckloads of dirt out of the back playground and took it out to Gumdale where the dirt was used as clean fill. The backyard now has a drainage system that works again. It's been a while since this has been the case, and any time there has been any significant rain I've had to get out there and clear all of the mud and sticks out of the stormwater system. Once Brad had completed his end of the bargain Dirty Dave and Randy Balls got in there and started doing their thing. I came to help them. They brought the turf out to me, and I laid it. It's been a while since I've done any laying and my back was quite sore the next day.
In the end I managed to get out of there at about 7:30 that night. I return every night now after 7 so I can water the ground for an hour. I'm organising the children to dance in a circle to try and get the rain gods to give us a bit of precipitation. It seems to be working.
That's about it really. I watched the greatest hour of television last night. The Victoria's Secret Lingerie Show. It was amazing. Those girls are amazing. I felt kinda dirty watching it with my sister in the room, so I left to be alone for a while with those amazing specimens. They all seem like quite nice girls as well. Except for Naomi Campbell. I'm sure that she was just having a bad day though. But dear oh dear, they were beautiful. Vivacious. Effervescent. And sometimes that just sucks.