Lawyered up

So a brief update on our rental grief, it appears that our landlords lawyer didn't know about his clients bizarre tactics, the whole thing was news. As far as we can tell this sorry tale has been a poorly executed grab for cash with the assumption that we wouldn't understand our rights or take steps to defend them. I'm not sure whether to feel insulted or relieved :-). One thing I definitely am is pissed-off.

It's far from over but it looks like we'll be continuing on at 374 River Glen until we come home, sometime before March 2008. The two lawyers will draw something up by mid-week and we should know where we stand. Sadly the whole episode has been a little stressful for the family, but at the moment it looks like all is well.

Some other quick snippets -

• Jo went with Cam on a school excursion to a farm today, so it was noisy kids and the smell of 20 types of poo today.
  
• Abs had her EQA test (the standard government test for all grade 3's) and says that she felt fairly comfortable with her effort.
• Using our $20 rackets has been increasingly difficult at tennis on Friday nights. Now that Jo has found another local girlfriend who's also a member of the club she's off playing in the womans comp on Tuesday mornings. So will the number of hours of tennis per week shooting up it's about time for some decent equipment. Jo got a couple of demo tennis rackets and at around $200 plus stringing they might be a little more than I had in mind :-), oh well Jo never complains about my toys so it's time for me to shut up.
  
• Cam wants to do Ju Jitsu with a mate on Thursdays, so that's being setup, looks like he'll have a busy summer (soccor, tennis and beating me up).
• I went to Niagara Falls with the boys from work over the weekend. Played up quite a bit, stayed at the Sheraton and then played the John Daly golf course Saturday morning. AJ won $600 playing blackjack, I was the oldest and tucked into bed before 3am, Ram had one hours sleep and still hit under 90, bastard.