So I got a bit lazy with the posting closer to x-mas day as we were rushed for time, so here's the rest (so far)

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Due to council issues (work), planning objections (too tired) and rain delays the house renovations have been on hold since early November.


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 About 2 years ago we managed to get hold of a 1/12th scale dolls house for free (thanks Marina),  it was not finished and had some broken parts, but the price was right.

Vikky Collection - Georgian Townhouse (except ours is Brunswick Green)

Since then it's just sat in the corner, gathering dust and being used as a clothes horse. But Sarah is now at the age where we think she'd enjoy a dolls house, so the plan is to 'renovate' it and give it to her for Christmas this year.

Originally I thought it would be fun to do a video rip off of a 'Grand Designs' episode, complete with Kevin McCloud commentary (use the work bespoke a lot, think it could all turn to sh*t, but love the end result), but I don't think i'll have the time, so i'm just going to blog about it instead.

So here we go

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I couldn't  go past a book titled 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: The classic Regency romance - now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem' - should be an interesting read.

Junk Mail Numbers

DAY	ITEMS	# READ	% READ	WEIGHT
DAY 1	8	1	12%	194g
DAY 2	1	0	0%	2g
DAY 3	7	5	71%	239g
DAY 4	0
DAY 5	0
DAY 6	1	0	0%
DAY 7	18	3	17%	314g
DAY 8	0
DAY 9	1	0	0%	17g
DAY 10	8	4	50%	264g
DAY 11	2	0	0%	303g
DAY 12	0
DAY 13	11	3	27%	231g
DAY 14	10	3	30%	282g
DAY 15	0
DAY 16	0
DAY 17	10	4	40%	326g
DAY 18	2	1	50%	156g
DAY 19	1	0	0%	4g
DAY 20	0
DAY 21	0
DAY 22	0
DAY 23	7	2	29%	44g
DAY 24	9	3	33%	200g
DAY 25	16	3	19%	721g
DAY 26	1	0	0%	8g
DAY 27	0
DAY 28	10	5	50%	251g
DAY 29	0
DAY 30	9	2	22%	176g
TOTAL ITEMS	132	39	TOTAL WEIGHT	3738g

NOTES
*Junk Mail peaks came in cycles every couple of days, not once a week as I would have thought
* One lady forgot to regularaly deliver mail to our side of the drive way (didn't turn around), so some stuff was not delivered, so this data does not truely reflect the junk mail delivered in our area
*One lot got delivered twice which upset the data on that day (Day25)
*I'm not going to do mean, mediums - I was never good at that stuff
*On average I only read 30% of what was delivered

* Nearly 4kg of mail - what a waste of paper!

Yamada Judo Academy
IGA
Next Byte
Target Country
Hyundai
Furniture Galore
*Toys'r'Us
Coles
*Target

Items: 9
Weight:176g

Nil

*Holmsglen TAFE
*ALDI
Next Byte
*Leonards
Tasman Meats
SportsMart
*IGA
Woolworths
*OfficeWorks
SmartSaver

Items: 10
Weight: 251g

Nil

Budget Direct

Items: 1
Weight: 8g