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The see-through wall

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Our brick wall

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 grown a little large and was blocking access to our side gate.

I’ll bring my chainsaw said Engineer of the Year, and he did, along with the mulcher.

I love the mulcher. I love the way you feed in a branch and it sucks it in and spits it out in tiny bits… And then you have mulch. It’s just all good.

So of course I got a little carried away – a chainsaw, a mulcher, a parent. The perfect formula for adiosing three trees and a few branches… and the grevillia.

One of the branches came from the bottlebrush tree and smelled like essential oil when it was munched up.

It was a fine afternoon’s work but now the wall is exposed… and seemingly our front garden as well.

Sigh.

UPDATE: In the transfer of hosts of this site some of your comments (and jokes) got lost. So here they are…

River wrote: You just need a new brick. Chip out the old mortar, clean and prepare the surface and cement a new brick in place.

Anita joked: ooooh, did you hear about the invention that lets you see through walls?

A: It’s called a window.

he he he eh ehehe
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And again with: oh oh oh, and then there’s the invention that lets you WALK through walls…

Yes, it’s called a “door”.

chuckle chuckle chuckle

I groaned back with: *groans*

They are first class “dad” jokes Anita!

River you’re right and I would bother for one brick. Sadly we have a great many “windows”. I’ll post a photo soon so you can see what I mean.

Jen – thanks 🙂

Joh – yes – but he was under direction. 🙂 I love a man with a chainsaw.

PQ – me too. I wants one.

Flit wrote: yup…that’s pretty thin 🙂

Anita came back with: Dad jokes for sure!

Just thinking… in Italy you see little holes in walls like this all the time, with metal garnishments to give you sneak peeks into secret worlds… perhaps you could modify this hole somehow to make it look “on purpose”?

😉

To which I replied: Anita – what I like about you is your positivity!

You’re definitely glass half full!

House

A foolproof way to get Blu-Tack off a painted wall

Honestly, can there be anything more satisfying than a heavy thick drill in your hands as you shudder your way to making a hole in an up till then smooth blemishless surface.

No. There isn’t.

Today I have been a handywoman. I’ve been to the hardware store TWICE. Here are my projects.

The first to hang a pin-up board over the mess my daughter had made of her wall STICKING – with GLUE – pictures on it.

Pin Up Board

The second project was brought about because of the gas crisis and the need to save electricity in the home. Okay. And the dryer broke.

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At first I thought I’d get one of those stands but then I saw this retractable line and I was sold. I got out my (Groover’s) trusty drill and voila!

The Washing Line
Forgive the crappy photo 🙂

So now to the reason you’ve made it this far – the way I discovered to get rid of Blu-Tack…

Blu-Tack Solution

So I was rubbing the pencil marks that I’d made to drill the holes in the right places when I was putting up the pin-up board with an ordinary plastic eraser – the kind kids get at school – and I saw that my naughty daughter had also tried to put up posters with the tacky stuff. So I rubbed the eraser over the Blu-Tack marks and OMG they came off a treat!

A bonus for me after all my hard work.

House

Locked out and I had my key!

So I came home after work yesterday and couldn’t open the front door. I could hear the tumblers shift but I could not open the door. I tried over and over. I had a new key so I thought it might have been inexpertly cut… but no. On trying both Hugamuga and Dippity’s keys I was forced to the conclusion that it was the lock itself that wasn’t working.

I went round the back to get in through the back.

Now the back door is rarely opened. And after years of heat and water (neglect) the wood has rotted somewhat.

On top of that as we don’t use this door we tend to use it as a wall and stuff gets piled up against it.

So when I finally got the stiff lock open I found I had to push against some wine boxes, a pair of sandshoes and two packets of heat beads for the barbie.

“Er… Mum… you’ve munted the door…” says Hugamuga as I triumphantly march to the front door and fling it open.

the broken door

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The story of the lock fix

1201 – Hi what seems to be the problem?
1201 to 1205 – Man takes off door handle. Takes out lock. Shakes it a bit. Realigns lock. Screws it back in.
1206 – That’ll be $99 thanks love.

!!!!!!!!

As Dippity says: “Think of it as a repair AND lesson on how to do it next time…”

The door will be a bigger problem. For now, the drinks fridge is keeping us safe.

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House, Random

Not remotely funny anymore

Our remotes

So Groover has gone and upped the ante on the televisual system. We’ve got a playstation – that we also use to play dvds, and a PVR – Personal Video Recorder – basically a hard drive that will record television. I do love a PVR as you get a telly guide and that makes recording a cinch. Groover’s also got surround sound and that means everything has to go through an amp. So now we have a remote for the telly, the playstation and the PVR AND another for the amp – which everything goes through.

To watch telly here’s what I have to do.

Pick up remote one – the telly remote – and click it on.
Pick up the amp remote and click one – to select the PVR.
Pick up the PVR remote and click it on.
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Walk away with the PVR remote and use that.

Sounds simple? It’s taken me ages to work it out. I’m overwhelmed by remotes.

Still I’d rather have them than actually get up and walk to the telly to press a button. Imagine doing that?!!!

Ah nostalgia… it ain’t what it used to be.

Family, House, Random

The trouble with keys

Is they accumulate in odd places, in those drawers you keep meaning to clean out, like sand in a beach carpark or dust bunnies under the bed they drift together until you have no idea what they were for or even if they were yours in the first place.

My brother

I was at my brother’s house today. He has a studio built out the back and while he has been living in Melbourne has rented out the house in the front. The tenants have moved out and before the new ones move in, he wants to do a bit of repair work. Problem is – he can’t find his keys.

The conversation went something like this:
I know they are here somewhere. he said.
Where did you last see them? I said.
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What were they in? I said
A clear plastic bag. he said.
You mean these ones. I said.

My brother's keys

In this huge collection of keys the ones with the red tag are his house keys and the tiny silver ones down the bottom fit into a lock (but don’t turn it). The rest? Who knows. They just accumulated in a little plastic bag in the toolbox.

House, TV

A grand design

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Today I thought I’d write about my favourite television program of the week. Yes even more than Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares or Desperate Housewives, the show I most look forward to is Grand Designs… on ABC1 at 6.05pm on a Thursday… and there’s an earlier series shown on Tuesdays at 11.00am.

What I love about this show is the dreams that fuel it.

Kevin McLeod is the host and he can speak several European languages, an impressive addition to his passionate love for the subject and obvious regard for his subjects – both human and material.

Every episode Kevin follows the journeys of people who want to build their dream house. From modest budgets to magnificent, every design has vision and a story behind it. And no build is without its challenges.

We watched Tuesday’s episode yesterday of an Irish couple who were building an LA inspired mansion on a steeply sloping block. Today’s was of an English couple in Tuscany, lovingly restoring a derelict castle having coped with 4 years of Italian bureaucracy. One of my favourites was an older couple building a Roman inspired guesthouse in Southern Italy for just 19,000 pounds. Extraordinary and inspiring, and another of a couple who’d lived in a shed for over 13 years, who built this fantastic house out of wood – a bespoke kit home from Norway. It was beautiful.
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Bespoke is one of Kev’s favourite words. 🙂

Now we may never build our own home – in many ways I can’t think of anything worse – but watching these people turn their dreams into brick and wood and mortar is inspiring. It’s a program of hope. Maybe that’s why I love it so much. Great to watch such positive energy, to absorb it through our telly.

Everytime I watch this show I think “You know what? We should do this show in Australia.” I’d have like to have seen it done on the house opposite us for example or my cousin’s house… both amazing houses… and they must be the tip of the iceberg.

After all – building your own home is the Australian Dream.

The question is who would be the host – could there be another Kevin McCloud somewhere down under?

Groover, House

Watching the cricket

Watching the CricketMay I just say that that’s what I call watching cricket.

And before you get the wrong idea let me give you the background.

We got up this Sunday morning. I made the bed (I was the last one out of bed – so that’s fair), went down to the shops to get some fruit and the papers and Groover got on the computer (although he did bleach the toilet if I remember rightly). I cleaned the kitchen properly – even the oven doors – and put on the first of four loads of washing. Hung out washing – folded washing.

Cleaned the back half of the house including floors.

We went out to Fremantle where I bought a dress and Groover didn’t get a massage.

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Until he felt guilty.

You see we do split the housework and it’s usually predicated on the other person conspicuously doing housework as well.

It’s not a completely even split but he nags the kids and buys more wine than I do so I suppose that makes up for a bit…

I think the bottom line is we are both as lazy as eachother when it comes to housework and would happily not do it. And it’s only that his threshold is slightly lower than mine that he does any at all. I’m sure if I hated mess more than he does he would do nothing and we would not be happy campers.

House, Random

From bar to e-nook in one generation

Today the Sunday paper’s real estate section taught me that areas like the one we have our computers in is no longer a “bar” but an “e-nook”.

Here’s me in my e-nook:

In my e-nook

As you might be able to tell in this photo – waaay back in 1977 when our house was built, complete with exposed beams, chocolate coloured metal window frames and hanging garden in the entry – it was a bar.

My e-nook

In just one generation we’ve turned our repository for alcohol into an office. Our beer fridge is now relegated to the laundry.
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But how long will it last?

Already laptops and mobiles, playstations and PDA’s are seeing the need for the e-nook disappear. Add to that fridges with computers in them and surely it can’t be long before the only thing left is a lonely printer – and a wireless hub.

Perhaps the e-nook will become the e-cupboard or even the e-drawer?

Certainly we are seeing in our house the development of an e-breakfast bar.

What are you seeing in your house?

House

Dark Horse: Your room is ready!

We call him The Dark Horse. He has been a friend of Groover’s since school and is coming out for an Australian Christmas with his girlfriend and helpfully staying at our place while we bugger off to a big family Christmas in the snow.

We don’t often have guests but whenever we do we are galvanised into action and clean out our granny flat which spends most of the year as a shed/storeroom/kids playroom.

It wasn’t that bad actually… there have been times when I’ve physically not been able to get past the first foot from the door due the the junk that has been dumped in there. I took some before and after photos.

before bed

As you can see the bed has completely collapsed. Fixing the frame was our first priority and it took ages.


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after bed

Ah but the result was worth it.

room

This is the other half. There is also a small bathroom – filled with The Orchid Hunter’s school notes from 2005&6 – the ones he couldn’t bear to part with – but I don’t want to bore you…

We’ve lived in this house for ten years and this is the first time I can remember Groover helping out with the clean up (he says he’s done it once before – but I don’t remember). It’s much more fun when there is two of you, plus he even threw out some of his crap beloved treasures.

 

House, Modern Life

Organised!

My larder My Larder

It has been a while since I organised my larder. Maybe years? Certainly it hasn’t been properly cleaned out since 2005.

Shocking I know.

There is something internally cleansing about taking everything out, throwing out the sunflower seeds reduced to dust; re-discovering empty tupperware containers named brown rice and self-raising flour; finding the old jar of cloves – use by date April 1996!


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The oldest thing in my larder

I walk around my house and end up back in the kitchen, just staring at my organised shelves and feel good about myself.

To think! This could happen every week! I could tidy up the linen cupboard, the wardrobe, the kids’ wardrobes, the cupboard in the laundry, the back room! I could write a menu plan! Hang on. That’s taking things too far.

For now I will simply rejoice in my organised, clutter-free larder.