Two weeks in paradise.

Blew up gale yesterday. Squalls of rain, then the sun would come out.

All night the wind was howling down the flue of the wood fire stove. Mauro asked me if I had heard the house creaking during the night.

But it dawned warmish and sunny. Still windy though. I had to turn off the heater mid morning because I was getting too hot.

At midday a guy from the Dept of Infrastructure came to talk about the "Barge". The barge is the lifeline of the community. For the last year it was coming fortnightly, bringing food supplies to the store, particularly fresh fruit and vegetables, and other goods such as building supplies to other people on the island.

It seems that the company who runs the barge has an exclusive contract with the State Government, which ensures that the service runs at least monthly. For some reason, there was some "misunderstanding" by the guy who owns the company where he thought that the government was going to pay him to run it fortnightly. Unfortunately, this was not the case, and when he discovered that the government was not going to pay him for that, he stopped the service.

So now it is back to monthly.

Which means that now fresh fruit and veggies and other groceries will only be delivered every month... obviously this means that storage is now an issue too.

And it also means that my and Mauricio's worldly possessions, which we were expecting LAST Tuesday, will now not be arriving until NEXT Tuesday.

Another few days without Age of Empires, woe be Mauro.