 19 November 2007A Very Little MomentumThe new engineer seems much better. He'd sent me an agreement within three days of getting the house plans. Now that's what I'm talking about! The plans are still not finished but at least I feel like someone actually gives a damn about getting things done. Now here's a trap for young players that I've come up with. It seems that some of the District Councils close off their files for the Christmas period (those of you outside NZ might not be aware but we close down almost completely for about 4 weeks down here - a combination of Xmas and summer holidays). This means that they don't take on any new work. So although we'd sent off our Project Information Memorandum I took the opportunity to pay the Consent fee pronto with the idea that if I'd paid they can't close the file! So hopefully once the drawings are finished they can be sent to Council and get acted on straight away...... oh it's all so damned slow! In the meantime I've been busy on TradeMe. I bought a kitchen for our house and then went into a bit of a panic about where I was going to put the thing.... it seemed to have slipped my ming that I don't actually have a house yet! So after asking around to see if anyone had a spare shed we could use (turns out the point of a shed is that it's full of stuff all the time), I decided to buy a container. So we now have a large grey, rusty shipping container complete with kitchen up on our land. I'm not sure if I'm going a bit ass about face here but the kitchen was only $265 with and extra $200 for delivery so it seemed like a good deal - came complete with sink, taps and ceramic hob (which we probably won't use). We've found a chap in Maungatoroto who installecd his own wormcast septic system and said it was easy as, so we're going to visit him and find out what easy really means. I was at Peter Panyoczki's party on Saturday night and met a nice German couple who are also looking at water heating via a combination of solar and wetback. They mentioned that there are only 4 models of wetback heater that are permitted in the Kaipara District if you're under 10 acres. It's all to do with slow burning creates more particulates (smog). So I have to call KDC and get a list of those. Will let you know what they are. I suppose the only other news is that we still haven't had the fencing done - Mangawhai time is slower than other places. The fencing guy was busy with fishing and a wedding so hasn't had a chance to get us the quote. And as expected when we went up to the land yesterday all our cabbage trees had been ripped out of the ground, branches broken off the tea-trees and nibbles taken out of lots of other plants. The tell-tale cow-splats reminded us once again of the urgency of getting the fencing down. In fact I'll go call the guy now! Labels: Kaipara District Council, Peter Panyoczki, wetback, wormcast
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