Finance::Quote
Minor embarrasment as I discovered that I had to approve my own posts to the finance-quote-news list. The company I work for changing its name as also meant that some of my own mailing lists no longer recognise me. Oops.

House
Settlement is taking place right this very moment, and I hope to pick up the keys in the next hour or so. I was hoping to lie in the sun at the new house, read a book, plan the garden a bit, and plant some seeds so we'll have something cropping for when we move in. If I felt energetic enough I was also planning on getting some materials to build the chicken coop/run.

Unfortunately, after a beautiful weekend, today's turned out to be very wet and rainy. It was raining when I woke up at 8am this morning (yay for sleeping in), and it's still raining now 5 hours later. No sign of it stopping, either. As such, I think I'll have a very wet ride to pick up the keys, and then spend time wishing I could lie in the sun and read a book.

Over the next month we'll be moving things across to the new house. Passionfruit vines, rhubarb plants, many pots of sunroot, seeds and tools, an avagato^W avacado tree and eventually even furniture. I've got enough friends and family wanting to see the new place that I should be able to get most of the fiddly things over before the big move. Somehow I don't think most removalists have much experience with transporting an 18-month old passionfruit vine. (Mind you, neither do I.)

Chickens
The council is sending me out a big set of local regulations regarding the keeping of chooks. Interestingly enough, the maximum allowed without a permit is five, but I already have six people expecting to have chickens named after them.

I guess I'll worry more about this as I get more chickens. To start with I'm planning on getting two bantam australorp hens, both named "Ian".