Trampoline

Spent Saturday morning helping Trevor dismantle the old trampoline and swing frame, and in their place construct a new trampoline. This arrived, not from Hungary, in three heavy boxes. With much grunting, hunting for missing screws, and helpful comments from Owen, the task was accomplished by lunch time (if you stretch the definition of lunch time a bit). 

Attaching the springs was very difficult; to attach one opposite another you have to disconnect the first one, which leaves you the same problem, only the other way round. When we'd finished, out of curiosity, we had a look at the instructions, which said "this task requires two adults in good physical condition". That would be it, then.

Talking of parcels, Trevor said the Oz postal service is pretty poor. Parcels from Europe take four days, a parcel he sent to his daughter in Melbourne took ten days to get there.