Or at least a friend call Aaron, Abdul, Adam or ever Aiden. anything to stop my name appearing at the top of the list on their mobile phone. Why? Well, when the keypad of the phone is not locked and the phone gets squashed in a pocket or is bouncing around in a handbag, it often rings the first person on the phone list. I often get calls where I can hear all sorts of things going on, but even though I yell into my phone, there is no answer from the other end. The latest incident was getting called three times at 3 o’clock in the morning and I was not a happy camper.

Here is a good tip. Enter a contact in your phone called AAAAAAA and put your own phone number in it. This way if the phone does decide to ring someone, it will go straight to your own message bank.

There has been an interesting recent development in the David Rhodes saga. People leaving list of names on the site are reporting they have the same list with one name added. This shows us who is sending the lists on and the speed at which the chain moves from one generation to another. I will try and find some software that enables me to map out the chain in detail. If anyone has an idea of the type of software to use (maybe mind-mapping software could do it), let me know.

Yesterday afternoon I started feeling a bit itchy on the palms, (supposedly a sign that you will soon come into money) and the itchiness soon spread to my whole body. That evening I was watching TV and felt my lips getting bigger. They soon got so big that I had difficulty talking properly. I got some antihistamines from the chemist but they seemed to have no effect. In the morning my lips were as puffy as ever and I took a different type of antihistamine. Within an hour the swelling started to drop and it was completely gone by late afternoon.

Unfortunately the only photo I took was just before going to the chemist and this was not at the height of the problem. I didn’t eat anything strange or come into contact with strange substances so I still don’t know what caused it.

Judy has received one of these letters and sent me the addresses. They are now on the David Rhodes page.  It seems the more names I get sent and the more I mention it, the more hits I get and the more names I get.

This subject continues to be the source of the greatest number of hits on my site.

These things seem to come in waves. Coming home from holidays last weekend, I found that someone had left a note on the web site with a list of names from a David Rhodes letter they had received (See early post). When I checked through the snail mail sent over the last three weeks, there was the tell-tale hand written envelope with the bulge of a 5-cent piece in it. The names from this letter have also been added to the David Rhodes page.

Today I was sent an email from Kane (last name provided) who had received one of the these letters and gave me the list of addresses on it. I have added them to the David Rhodes shame file page.

Thanks Kane.

I just came back from Tyrone’s 2nd birthday party. It was a Wiggles theme and lots of people had skivvies on. About an hour after it started, Hamish and Andy and a film crew from Rove turned up to say hello as part of their weekend party marathon. This was the 14th party they had been to so far and they were on target to get to 30 before the night was out. What a time NOT to have a camera.

Now that half of the children have left the nest, the house is starting to look a bit empty. There are rooms that don’t even get visited every day, so it seems about time to find a smaller place to live. Having only recently completed the renovations, the plan was not to move for about two years. However, the other day we were driving home and saw that a nearby apartment complex that has been under construction for the last six months, was open for inspection. We just went in to have a quick look and walked out having bought one.

It is only two bedrooms, but it is brand new and has plenty of space. The complex has a park in the middle and the apartment backs onto the park with a gate straight into the back courtyard.

Check out the preliminary pictures. (This is the display version, ours is actually not finished yet).

Last night I had the honour of attending a gala dinner at the Sydney Hilton to receive a Bronze Award for the Sydney Water Annual Report in the Australasian Reporting Award. I work as one of the three people on the editorial team that puts the report together.

It is the second award since I have been working on the report, the first being for the 2005 report. (We didn’t enter in 2006). Now it is time to start working on the 2008 report. Head down bum up from now till it is finished.

We managed to recover the missing piece of the puzzle from the dog today and the bookcase is complete!