Hi everyone,

Well, Jamie came along today with two very specialised cameramen, called Simon and Simon! They were using a 'Jimmy-jib' camera, to do those cool ariel shots that they use for looking down on the subject - 'birds-eye' type shots.
If you look on my 'profile', you can see the new pictures. A 'Jimmie-jib' is a counter-balanced portable crane, with a £70K camera on one end and up to 200kg on the other. It can extend up to 40 feet and I've loved seeing our gardens from a totally different perspective - no wonder the crows are always racing around our roof! (Which Simon showed me in great detail - we checked the condition of the drains and the flatroof, and all the tiles!! Cool. All seems to be OK.)

I'd LOVE to get one of those fab-Sedem systems you can buy for flat-roofs, which make the roof into a living, green carpet. We'd also love to get more eco-friendly and install solar-panels, to heat our water, as we NEVER have hot water in the taps, since the documentary started 15 months ago - it was a savings choice. We get so much sun for 9 months of the year here in Cornwall,so solar-panels would be great - imagine a heated towel-rail! Finally, the other eco-chic things to do are add those fab wind-turbines that are only about a metre in height and width, to add into our electric supply and of course water-butts for all the down pipes, as there is a predicted chronic water shortage (more in the S East, but seeing as we pay on a meter, water-butts are an excellent way to conserve a very vital product, as you use rainwater for the garden, which is better for tender plants anyhow. Why is potable, treated water used for toilets, by the way?!
(If anyone/company wants to supply these products to our home and become part of our BBC 2006 adventure, please call us! Or e-mail, on chloe@wolsey-ot.fsnet.co.uk - why not?!)

Also, its a big day today, for another reason. This afternoon we will film the signing off of the website build with Adrian, our technical guy - at last!! - it's been weeks of very detailed negoiations about the content and delivery of the site to and fro between us, Adrian and our solicitors.
The content was added to greatly last week, after Rene demanded we made Kisses That Count a far better/ stronger prospect for our future customers - we needed to think of ways of making the website a place / service that Joe Public really desired / wanted to become a signed-up, paying member of.

And finally, 'The Badger'! We have contacted the wonderful Ruth Badger, from 'The Apprentice' to see if she'd like to send a virtual kiss to all her fans, via Kisses That Count! We have been rooting for Ruth throughout the entire series and wish her all the very best with her career. Ruth is checking us out, as we speak - so fingers-crossed. We are hoping Ruth can use her spectacular persuasive talents and get all this years Apprentices to send Kisses, as the series has been great fun to watch. Watch this space to see if Ruth comes on board!! Can she get Sir Alan Sugar to send a big smacker of a Kiss too?!?!?

Yes, to be very user-friendly, we have decided to add in cool prizes (like i-pods, tickets, signed books, etc) as well as cash prizes to tantalise our lovely new Kisses That Count customers / users. Please do all join, in July - a years membership will be a tiny £5. It's going to be the next big thing - sending good vibes whizzing aound the globe! So make sure you and your mates are part of it!

Lots of love
Chloe.