Grand Final Day.....The last Saturday in September..........Premiers!!!
Was there any doubt???? HELL NO!
Ya know it just fits......1992, 1994, 2006. Got a REAL nice ring to it.
What a game. 1 point winners. WELL DONE BOYS!!!
YOU BLOODY BE...A...UTY
Today we helped Kay's Mum aka, Grandma celebrate her birthday with a day at the zoo. I won't tell you her age coz that'll be a sure fire way to be expelled out of the will!! The weather was so so, with intermittent rain but that didn't dampen the spirits of the kids not to mention the little ones too!! We had an awesome time. The place has really changed in the few years since we last visited the family...HaHa!
This is a 16 year old elephant called "PERMUI" who was show-casing her tricks then the finale, the water spit. Very clever elephant. (Cool photo too)
This is one of the cute meerkats just enjoying the little bit of sun that graced us for a short time. No your not seeing double, well......yes you are really, thanks to some clever photographic skills!! 
Who said not eating all your vegies makes you weak. Let me see Superman do this!!
Not to be out done, Georgia proves it can be done on one leg!!
This young wippersnapper didn't want to leave to comforts of home so she made dam sure her bum was firmly planted to that sheep skin seat cover in her pram. She had fun....but.....only on her terms. People that know Shenae, know just what I mean!!
Some more of the "locals". I like to call them....Curly, Larry & Moe. Don't really know why but it just seems to fit.
This young lady was huge. She must have stood 3 mtrs tall. 
Not the best angle of this zebra I know but do you think the shit would turn around....NO! So we are stuck looking at it's bum. Say CHEESSSEEEE!!
Shit I had to look twice at this fella. Could have sworn this was a extended member of the family...........Ya never know!!!!?
Georgia & Nathan frolicking with some of the more well know locals. Addition #3 unfortunately was still stuck to the pram and refused to budge.
We have windows and ceilings!!!!! It's amazing.
They have done more work in one week than than they have in the last 3 months, if ya know what I mean???
Stick a fire cracker in their pants and off they go!!
OK fight fans, just as promised. The fight of the century is about to unfold right before your eyes. Heat up that pop corn, get the frosted glass outa the freazzzzzer, fill it with ya flavour, sit back and watch for the knock out bout!!!! In the honest corner we have the bright eyed and bushy tailed VERMIN5 and in the bull shit and nob head corner we have........Well you all know who!!!
Now don't expect the dirty gutter trash of the previous few entries. This one is all class..................................................Coz KD wrote it. I got in trouble :(
Ok, ya ready??????.......Not for the faint hearted!!!!........This is just a snippet...........................Here we go.....Oh yea it's comin...........................................................................
YOUR COMPANY IS CRAP!!!!!
There ya go fight fans. That's about as far as I would let the misses go. This blog needs to up hold some sort of standard and I refuse to let the leader of the opposition take control and ruin the integrity of this publication...yes sports fans thats right PUBlication. (Notice the hidden word???? Hmmmm BEER!!) So I'm sorry if I have disappointed any of you..........Shit who am I kiddin...No I'm not.
Oh and by the way KD didn't write the 4 word phrase above.........it was me. I know, I know. I can't believe it myself. Shocking isn't it.
The Verminiser
Chachow!!
Hiya Folks,
Just thought an update may be in oder. Last week we received a letter for an progress payment. Man I still laugh when I see "Progress". That's so fuckin funny.
OK........Where to start.....???...?.....????......?????
Maybe I should tell you about the rather nasty email I sent them basically stating no more money until the bar is lifted on quality or should I start with the "Draft" letter I have typed and Kay edited (to remove all the nasties) that I really want to send to the supervising management but aren't allowed too. Man o Man, decisions????
OK we'll start with the email...........We received a letter of progress payment on Monday 14th. Now let me set the scene for you. It was a shit weekend, with absolute minimal work done on the house AGAIN!!! So Sunday night I wasn't a very nice person to be around, lucky I was home with the boss so she could slap me around (No Nat, NOT LIKT THAT!!) I had steam pouring outa my ears, fire in my eyes building and building and lighting bolts firing outa my ass (Juha, not from what I ate either ya cheeky shit). We didn't need the heater on that night let me tell ya! The last thing I wanted was to hear from the builder.
Alas the magic happened and I got a letter in the mail from a little man dressed in very bright yellow suit on a funny red bike the next day. Funny how that ALWAYS seems to happen to me!!! Bills ARRRHHHHH!!! Oops sorry, side tracked, back to the main event. Arriving home from work on the Monday finishing my first day in ED and feeling pretty good about the day, not even thinkin about the bloody house which is huge, I see this letter stickin outa mail box, with the builders stamp on it. At this stage and having a good day I really thought that it was an update on progress with them giving us a run down on how things have gone to date and how they are "expected" to continue. Don't know where this fantasy came from but don't worry I fuckin slapped it outa myself when I read the title of the letter unpon opening the envelope. "Progress Claim-Roff Cover". FFAAARRRRKKKKK!!!
Kay I stewed over this letter for about 30 hours (just to be accurate!!!) then we discussed witholding the payment until all the work to this date were completed thinking we are already behind so what the hell. So the evil in me just began to flow and the keyboard almost set alight!! We basically outlined the poor workmanship in the front window, the garage window, the course of brickwork they missed in the theatre room, yes MISSED!!!,the electical work, the portico roofing flooding, and the absolute "ZERO" customer feed back from the super and customer liasion officer. I then gave this lady my phone details and told her I can be contacted before a certain time on Thursday morning only as I'm on shift. Now it read very clear with all the nasties again removed to much of my disgust, that's the professionism coming outa me wife!!!! This email was sent to them on Tuesday night for her to read first thing in the morning. She then forwarded it to our customer liasion officer who then forwarded it to our super, a little like chinese whispers apparently because I don't think they read it. No, let me change that, they didn't read it all coz my mobile phone went nutz at work on WEDNESDAY (the day I'm unreachable, in fact the day before I am contactable and stated in our email????) and they left two messages on the home phone when NO ONE WAS GOING TO BE THERE???? HELLO???? I called them back on Thursday. Oh look, the day I said I'll be reachable???
and spoke to both parties concerned. They were "surprised" by the email and thought things were going along fine on our end. Yea they thought that because you could never get hold of them to tell them otherwise which is all in the draft letter that I'll reveal another time. Needless to say the conversations were colourful with nothing resolved.
Kay and I are meeting with the house rep this arvo. This guy was awesome to deal with at sign up and called me a few days ago wanting to know how things were going. Not expecting the earful the poor bastard got, but not aimed at him. He has invited us to meet which means I'm gonna miss my beloved West Coast game this arvo:(( Sacrifices we must make. Boo Hoo Hoo.
That's enough till another chapter in this gripping saga is revealed!!!
So stock up on pop corn and coke and I'll be back soon.
Not the happy house builder.
PS No need for a photo update coz NOTHING HAS F@#KING CHANGED!!!!!
That can't possibly be a finished roof could it??? Nah surely not, and render too. What date is it? Is it Christmas already??? Do I have to rush out and buy Chrissie gifts???
Looks like we might be in by Xmas but what year is anybodies guess!!!! (2010)?????
Customer Service winner 3 years running.............Yea right. Oh I know what it must be....the real customer service people are on holidays and we have FRIGGIN' MONKEYS replacing them. Yea that makes a shit load more sense now. Don't know why I didn't see that any earlier. Anyone have a banana??
Well as you can see it's been over a month and the roof is still not finished. Our site super ensured us it'll be finished in two weeks from my last entry. BULL SHITT!!! This guy wouldn't know his mouth from his bum hole, he talks that much shit. And how hard is it to read building plans considering they do it FOR A LIVING. We ave found 6 fuck ups with the electrical plans that they have put in place in the home and do you think the super noticed??? Fuckin NO. This building a house has got fuckin nobs on it. Sorry if I sound hostile but shit, enough is enough. Too much bull shit and not a big enough shovel!!! We are now waiting on some "box guttering" for the portico that should have been put in place two and a half weeks ago and the dickheads still haven't made it. Can you believe that. This guttering should have been delivered when the rest of the roof sheeting was but no the "Scheduling Dept" overlooked it. Shit a brick, how the fuck can you overlook guttering?????
If anyone out there is thinking of building a house PLEASE DON'T. Way too much stress. Buy instead.
Finally, we have some more progress at the house. After the debacle of the last 5 weeks with the sacking of brickies and all the other shit that goes with it, they are getting on with it again. The roof should be completely finished by the end of the week.
It's really starting to "look like a house" now, if ya know what I mean. The expansion of the roof opens up all the rooms and gives a true account of the shape the house will take when completed.
Considering that we paid the deposit of the house and land almost 1 year ago (23rd July)it's been a long haul to reach this point so hopefully things will continue to progress to the all important finale of handing over the keys.
Once at lock up the site supervisor ensures us that it'll be 10-12 weeks to get the keys. Lets just wait and see!!!
Nothing has been done still!! It's been four and a half weeks since the brickies were on site. We met with our site supervisor last night and he said he sacked all the brickies working on our house for doing something that I can't publish. So if I see you about the place I'll tell ya.
Another thing was our lintels, they have been back in the workshop 4 times because the stupid wankers can't read drawings and keep making them too bloody big. This time round they are going to be cut and resized on site then put back in place today according to the supervisor, and the brick work will be finished by himself Saturday (17th June).
He told us during our meeting last night that the timber for the roof had also been stolen and reordered during the course of the last 4 weeks, nice hey. Some kid is getting a nice big free cubby house out of us.
Apparently we are getting a roofing crew early next week and the roof should be up by the end of next fortnight so I may or may not have new photo's. You will just have to wait and see.
It's amazing, Kay and I are down at the house every couple of days or so and we never saw anything to make us concerned other that the house not moving. Now we know why.
Lots and lots of stuff up's that we have to wear, but at a cost to the builder, not us!!
The cheeky buggers have asked for a progress payment for "plate high" when the brick work hasn't been finished. Silly silly people!!
All the materials are there to start on the roof timbers. The lazy mungrels haven't been back to finish the bricks for 2 1/2 weeks and THEY ask for a "PROGRESS" payment. Geezzz, what will they try and do next!!
We do however have a Portico and windows to our front bedroom finally.
I'm really starting to second guess the statement of them saying we'll be in before Xmas. Oh well moving along slowly.
Look at this Nat.....
All the door frames are in, just need to finish the front and alfresco sides of the home and the brickwork is all done. The timber has been delivered for the roof, so we are just waiting on the brickies to finish up their super fast job and in a blink of an eye or a click of a mouse, we'll ave a roof.
Being in by Xmas is still lookin real good. Good times right now. Oh yea baby.
Johnno the champ. He delivered our bricks today!!! What a legend. Brickies should be on site Monday morning and putting up walls, how cool is that?
