Well its been three and a half weeks now since moving to the new house and also since my last update doesn't time fly when your having fun!!
Ive explored the neighborhood pretty well now and know where all the local stuff is and feel like a local in the "fooda" supermarket now as I have chatted to all the checkout girls and they are resigned to my unavailabilityI kid you not for the first week it was "hullo where you stay? are you alone? In the end the only solution was to take my honey at the weekend and let her glower at each in turn
Im sometimes even allowed to pack my shopping now as Ive completed my Trainee Bag Packers course (I did it years ago in the UK)
Ive also made friends with the local can recycler who has hit pay-dirt with me and seems to now live just outside the gate
As we get more used to one another we have been discussing future options and from this has sprung a change of direction for Angie we now have an ever expanding social network of expats and there is not enough time to accept all invitations, as the results have a tendency to mean I fall over,
We are in the process of opening a Cebuano and English tuition service as you may have seen in a recent post and the first 3 customers have arrived from the USA (no not for English) and this has made life a bit more hectic as my honey is still working full time until Christmas unless she is released earlier from her contract which reads like a 16th century "we own you for life" bond servant deal.
The role reversal thats been going on is so far so good and I was pleasantly suprised that my cooking gets a consistant 8-9/10 it was pies yesterday and crinckle cut chips and salad with homemade banana ice cream at weekends she cooks and I enjoy innan unnan and humba and am working on my own interpretations of classic pinoy cuisine the oven is not quite as good as I would like and the yorkshire ,whilst acceptable did not rise as much as I had hoped but since no-one knew what it should be like I pulled it off I think.
Ive been trying to introduce the Idea of low impact living by such amusing sugestions as using vinegar as a general purpose cleaner toilet/floor etc and hiding the bleach.
Ran out of coal tar soap the other day and had an interesting conversation in the soap department by inquiring whether they had any that would not turn me white this lead to a spirited conversation ending with that well known phrase "out of stock" I have to admit I created this situation later by purchasing the last three bottles of HP sauce.
Time for Breakfast I think.....to be continued
In the UK we would call it a pitch and putt with fly tipping opportunities you can also purchase 20 pickups for around 150
