Returning and re-focussing

We plan for our Tasmanian summer sojourn to end mid-April, so in early April, we start thinking about the renovations again. We send a couple of emails to Anthy asking how the permit application is going, but no reply. We start to feel a little anxious, especially when we check the bank account and find that the cheque we wrote in December to go with the application hasn't been cashed.