We bought a ride-on!

So Stephen feels like he’s made it in life now because he (we) own a ride-on.

We borrowed our fridge Lurchy’s one and when we did, he mentioned he had a friend who was trying to sell their old one. So we went to take a look at it, and yes, it’s an old one and not in the most pristine condition, but it will do what we want it to… and it’s a quarter of the cost of a brand new one.

So we paid $700 and now we have a ride-on.

We had it delivered yesterday afternoon, so today Stephen spent the day tidying up the yard. He got through almost the entire yard before HE BROKE IT!! And by broke it, I mean he got a stick caught and one of the connections came loose, so now he needs to fix it before we can use it again. I’m so glad we didn’t buy a new one! haha.

TVing problems

On our first night here we plugged our TV in and when we did a tune, we found that we could only get ABC and Channel 10 Brisbane. We tried a few different things, but to no avail.

I spoke to our neighbours and they said that they only pick up Brisbane channels here, no local channels.

So Stephen organised for an antenna person to come out and found out that the antenna on our house was only for UHF, and because of our location, the only way it would work is if we extended the antenna up a few metres into the air (which would look mighty ugly). Our other option, and the most expensive option, was to have a new antenna installed – this time one for UHF and VHF. So, we went down this path. $490 later and we now have all channels.

Anyone want a UHF antenna? I’ve got a spare one going cheap!