Empty is always a temporary state. I cleared it yesterday and it only lasted 40 seconds. I'm up to 5....make that 6 emails sitting there again now.
Funnily enough my family moved to the area (Croydon Hills) after my dad left the army. Not quite so fancy a house for us, and Eastland (in its early brown brick square format) was already there. I had a look at some records and we moved in '82, and I've mostly been in the area since then. Suburbia is definitely covering everything, and in higher density than ever before too.
I just realised that even though I was just involved in lots of peripheral fire brigade organisation stuff revolving around that I never actually looked at what was on fire 🤣 So yeah, something big was burning but I have no idea if there was any pig involved.
Ringwood would have still been nearly rural at that time! They were probably there when they moved the clock tower! My family would have moved to the area not long before you moved out. Now every time I look at the older houses I'm going to wonder if it has a garage lined with shipping container!
Edit: I have just noticed the excessive number of exclamation marks!!! I'm sorry! I got a bit over excited!!
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Having been in the same place nearly 20 years I find the thought of moving a bit terrifying. But at least I have a lot of decluttering done, it at least seems manageable.
My last move was only three blocks. The one before that was technically only two houses, but I had a holiday for 6 weeks and put everything into storage during that time. Moving to another country is totally outside the scale of my expertise.
For most of my life bank interest has not really been a thing, and for a long time they charged fees, so banking cost money instead. The last few years with high interest rates - plus an online bank that lets me earn interest on all my money without locking it away and jumping through hoops for "bonus" interest - has been great.
That sounds like me. The last assignment I did I was still recovering from Covid and did a bit of a rush job on, and got 90%. They seemed to particularly like the section I had only done a rough outline of, intending to go back and add some detail and references later. I never went back and just assumed it would get me a few points but not a passing grade for that section, so I guess a rough outline was all they really wanted.
Empty inbox achieved. Vet visits booked for both Miss Meow and Mr Woof to have checkups. Car service enquiry sent. It looks like I'm having an efficient day today.
I think that was still around when I went to school, but it was being phased out and wasn't at my school. I'm pretty sure I had a money box the bank produced as a promo when I was in primary school.
I do remember going to the bank to open my first bank account when I was in my early teens. It was when EFTPOS was just starting out and ATMs were still a fairly new concept, so getting a debit card seemed like a really exciting innovation to be involved in. I think I had to be 18 to get my first cheque book though, which was how all my bills were paid until the online options were introduced.
Ooh decals. I'm a bit addicted to those. That's going to be the worst thing about moving, I'll have to leave my wildflower meadow behind!
I also added a few decals to the walls at work, but they've just been doing some work and unfortunately they have been lost. But I do have a spare copy of one of them in my locker so, as soon as they finish painting, Gunther (which is what I named the little guy peering up from the bottom of the wall), can return. Thomas, the rat peering out of his hole, may be lost forever.
ETA for afternoon tea: 15 mins. Iced fruit bun, highly anticipated yummyness.
Edit: yumminess aquired.
I had a look at the job and still have no idea what it was, but it is at the other end of the street from Big Pig. Some sort of warehouse or something yet to be identified.