See I didn’t think you would need a lesson but then, probably, you’re not 14. It has taken nearly two years but finally we have got cable which means we can now use my old bakelite phone as the house phone. Ahhh I am quite excited but the rest of the family, less so. Groover: [...]
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I came home from work today, opened the door and was transported to the outer suburbs olfactorally speaking. To the tip to be precise… which may or may not be in the outer suburbs… I haven’t been there… that’s what rates are for. The kitchen bin REALLY needed emptying. But not onto the floor which is [...]
Back in 2008, this happened. Now you might not remember it (so go to the link to refresh your memory), but our solution at the time was to board it up with a bit of plywood. An unsightly solution to be sure. It’s not as if we didn’t know the frames were rotten. In 2005 [...]
Congratulations, our water bill said, your water use is below average for your suburb. Which would be saying something if we didn’t live in the suburb with one of the highest water usages in Perth. So I guess you want to know how we saved so much water? What the secret is to our success? [...]
It seems only yesterday that I was posting photos of my glory vine’s last bright red leaves. It is now a twist of twigs over my rotting pergola, the beams sagging, held together by inexpertly attached shadecloth. Well it was. Today, as the bright sunlight of winter shone through I noticed greenery. It’s budding. And [...]
How good is this diet I’m on? In the last two weeks I’ve lost about four kilos, I’ve not given up wine and I get to have lunches like this. Smoked salmon and cream cheese wheels – easy and delicious – with a light salad. There was a light breeze as I sat outside on [...]
Our well used sliding doors into the granny flat and out of the back doors have been bumpy and sticky for a while now. The door to the cabana (our granny flat) so bumpy as to actually bump out of the track which is why we had banned the kids from hanging out in there. [...]
Concerned readers will be relieved to know the title of this post does not refer to the author following the attack of the stinger a few days ago. Indeed the evidence of the brutal tentacled molestation is all but gone and your correspondent is very much alive and kicking. Not kicking as well as her [...]
We are lucky enough to have a granny flat out the back of our place called affectionately The Cabana. As we don’t have a shed it comes in handy as a place for storing all that stuff that somehow accumulates when you’ve lived in the same house for ten years. The camping equipment is under [...]
We have a little problem with our walls. They are… thinning a bit. I’m wondering if all we need is a bit of render… What do you reckon? Okay clearly maybe more than a bit. Our walls were exposed recently when I asked my dad round to help me prune back a grevillia which had [...]
