Entries from September 2007 ↓

New a scooter rental place just down the road from us.

Is this new ramp thing in Ghuznee Street a piece of art?

Or a skate boarding ramp?

It’s a bit treacherous though – the garden planter and rubbish bin beside it are right in the landing zone. We saw a few accidents.

Finished the red and green (and little bit of orange) one yesterday

Now onto orange ponchos for the twins for Washington in the winter.

Thought it was about time I got some fabric labels to sew inside my knitting just in case the colour doesn’t give it away as being knitted by me. Found a good site (Australian though) and went through the very good design-your-label steps which gave me heaps of choices and freedom to create very cool white labels with orange text and icon.

Then I had to pay and it all went wrong.

To ship from Australia to New Zealand I was not only going to be charged a $5 postage and handling fee, but an additional whopping $120 ‘International Freight Surcharge’. Needless to say I cancelled out of that PDQ and wrote to the company stating the ludicrouscity (entirely made up but great word!) of it all.

I received a reasonably satisfactory response and suggestion:

Good morning to you.  Since you are in New Zealand, please deduct the extra $120 for “International Freight Surcharge”. We always include New Zealand as Australia. However it hasn’t been finalized onto our system yet.

I went back to the site not quite believing it was as simple as ‘deducting’ the surcharge, and sure enough, it wasn’t. Nowhere on the order summary or give-us-your-credit-card-details page is there any field or button capable of performing a deduction! 

I’ve placed an order with someone else.

A friend sent me a link to the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin where they have themed rooms – check out the orange one! Not sure how most people would sleep through that

Jumper made it to Sydney and is being worn already

Just have the buttons to sew onto the Christmas one then I have an order for ponchos for the twins – hmmm, never made those before.