Called at the land to check with Frankie and the chain wire has been started. Great to go home seeing this done :)
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Sunday, 6 January 2013
Back to Oz
Last morning before flying out this afternoon. Final business meeting this morning...we bought a 4.5 tonne tip truck!! Although our ute here is still reasonably new, it has done some heavy work and was getting to the point where we would need to spend money on it. Getting a truck will give us more control with deliveries and other opportunities here so guess I'll be learning to drive a truck! Not as bad as it sounds really as it isn't that much bigger than the ute and has better turning space and visibility as the windscreen is right at the front of the truck. Ha ha, this could be interesting!
Called at the land to check with Frankie and the chain wire has been started. Great to go home seeing this done :)
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Called at the land to check with Frankie and the chain wire has been started. Great to go home seeing this done :)
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Friday, 4 January 2013
Footings poured
Last business day before we fly home so hopefully our residency renewal will be ready for collection - hard to believe it has already been a year!
Still need to renew the business licence - tried the last two days but the renewal forms weren't printed :)
Also tried to pay the vehicle registration twice but the stickers were still being checked :)
Concrete footings poured .... I think John needs a day off ...he looked exhausted!
Went back to Immigration first to collect our residency renewals. Ah no, couldn't find our file so nothing had been done although we had paid our fee. I expressed our concern that they had lost the file as it would have been 10 months since it had been open but was reassuringly told no, it's not lost, it will be here somewhere (with a wave of the arm around a room laden with folders, files and paperwork). Didn't really make me feel any better! We will supposedly receive our letter via email with cards to be collected by John when he returns in January, stay tuned.
On to licensing to collect the renewal form for the Business Licence. Ah no, still not back from the printers and forms would be there this afternoon. Ha, I told him that's what you told me the last two days! Guaranteed they would be there so we went for lunch and returned at about 3.15pm. Big mistake - forms were ready but the cashier finishes at 3.00pm!! Aaaaarrrgh!!!
Called John to collect me as I was starting to hyperventilate ..... Thought we would stop at TVL to check re conflicting information on whether cable Internet was available to us at Second Lagoon rather than satellite but again big mistake. Asked reception which counter to wait at and after waiting at that counter for 5 minutes with nobody in attendance, I went back to check if she could send someone to assist. Ah no .... he just went on lunch (3.30pm) and would be gone for an hour. I then checked with her that nobody would be able to assist us for an hour and she said yes that's right. So she sent us to an unattended counter to wait for an hour???.
Not a good day for my patience level. We have learned to only try to do one thing per day as then if it doesn't go to plan, your stress level is not too bad but when 3 different attempts went haywire in one day, I was peaking it!!
Back to Vila Chaumieres to chill out :)
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Still need to renew the business licence - tried the last two days but the renewal forms weren't printed :)
Also tried to pay the vehicle registration twice but the stickers were still being checked :)
Concrete footings poured .... I think John needs a day off ...he looked exhausted!
Went back to Immigration first to collect our residency renewals. Ah no, couldn't find our file so nothing had been done although we had paid our fee. I expressed our concern that they had lost the file as it would have been 10 months since it had been open but was reassuringly told no, it's not lost, it will be here somewhere (with a wave of the arm around a room laden with folders, files and paperwork). Didn't really make me feel any better! We will supposedly receive our letter via email with cards to be collected by John when he returns in January, stay tuned.
On to licensing to collect the renewal form for the Business Licence. Ah no, still not back from the printers and forms would be there this afternoon. Ha, I told him that's what you told me the last two days! Guaranteed they would be there so we went for lunch and returned at about 3.15pm. Big mistake - forms were ready but the cashier finishes at 3.00pm!! Aaaaarrrgh!!!
Called John to collect me as I was starting to hyperventilate ..... Thought we would stop at TVL to check re conflicting information on whether cable Internet was available to us at Second Lagoon rather than satellite but again big mistake. Asked reception which counter to wait at and after waiting at that counter for 5 minutes with nobody in attendance, I went back to check if she could send someone to assist. Ah no .... he just went on lunch (3.30pm) and would be gone for an hour. I then checked with her that nobody would be able to assist us for an hour and she said yes that's right. So she sent us to an unattended counter to wait for an hour???.
Not a good day for my patience level. We have learned to only try to do one thing per day as then if it doesn't go to plan, your stress level is not too bad but when 3 different attempts went haywire in one day, I was peaking it!!
Back to Vila Chaumieres to chill out :)
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Garage and caretaker accommodation starts!
Footings for the garage dug today as well as the trenches for the power and water. John will build a small self contained unit at one end of the garage for the onsite caretaker. Concrete footings will be poured tomorrow.
Paperwork (leases) for the two smaller blocks almost finalised. Interesting that the solicitor had us sign these last Christmas but there had been no progress since then. Numerous emails and requests fell on to deaf ears so after we found out we could prepare our own, we spat the dummy, got the signatures required and started the process ourselves. Within two days the documents had been stamped by Financial Services so now just back to Department of Lands and that will be it! The lessons we are learning along the way!
Location:Vanuatu
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
New Year's Day
Caught up with Joel, Ann-Marie and the kids for lunch today. Had a great pizza out at the Beach Bar opposite Hideaway Island. Cruise ship was in so it was very busy.
Paul
James
Ann-Marie and baby John
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Paul
James
Ann-Marie and baby John
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Location:Vanuatu
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