A good morning
'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Tue 7 Feb 2012 02:21
Next up was an email from my case officer, Jane, at the Australian High Commisssion. My visa and passport were ready for pick up. Although she didn't say the visa had been granted, it had. Twelve months multi-entry, just the ticket, thanks Jane. Speaking of tickets, there was a travel agent next door to the place where I picked up the visa and they were advertising Virgin Blue flights. I went in, was it the same price as on the Internet? No, a F$20 (£7+small change) fee. OK, let's do it. The result is I now have a flight booked to Brisbane, F$940 return. Luckily, I've been paying off my Visa credit card like a good boy, so there was enough credit on there to pay for it, so it's not really costing me anything, is it? Well, not according to the Bernfeld method of accounting it isn't, which admittedly is to accounting what Lucrezia Borgias recipes were to Italian cooking. Now, I just need to get a letter from Fiji Immigration, allowing me back into Fiji on a one-way ticket, but I know who to see for that.
Arun the Electrick wanted some money, but that was to pay for the final spares he'd got for the anchor windlass which he reckons to be fitting the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're going to see 'a man about a fridge', specifically my compressor, and see if anything can be salvaged.
Martin the Mechanic also wanted money, but this was to buy some Lime-Away and to polish the crankshafts, so things are moving on the engine front.
Yes it was an expensive morning, but things are happening!
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