Roll out the wagons!

Geoff and l couldn't resist throwing one of the roofing iron sheets up onto the wagon today to check our template was accurate! It was (of course!!) and we are looking forward to getting the whole roof up in the next weekend or so.

It's going to be fabulous!!!

The other wagon is now framed up and waiting  for its canvas to arrive hopefully tomorrow!!! It's all go down here!!!

Last Days of Autumn

Well Winter is nearly here!!! The beasties are starting to plough through the hay like there is no tomorrow. Poppy and Blue having a good old munch this morning.

The Walnut Tree is just about bare. l reckon there is one more rake up of leaves to go and then it is all gone. Can't say l am too sad about that!!

We still have a fair bit of colour in the garden though. Heaps of the ever present Forget-Me-Nots as always!

A bit of yellow left in the Silver Birches.....

And the odd splash of red too!  l love this photo for some reason!

And what is very exciting is that the tin arrived for the gypsy wagon! Six sheets of beautifully curved roofing iron.!  Doesn't look very exciting sitting there l know but it will look fantastic when up on the roof! 

 

 

The Bathroom Reno

We are a bit game taking this on..........Not that we can't do it..........it's just that it will probably take us a while and we have created a few drafts and holes in the bathroom just as Winter is about to begin!
But anyway it's now on its way....Our slick new bathroom is no more.......it wont be as flash...but it WILL have a bath!

Goodbye beautiful clean white cupboards!!!

Goodness!!!!!  Exposed is the 1980's reno AND the 1950's one! Love the mouldy pink paint!

The cupboards have moved into this useless area we call The Cat Room (Simply because its where the cats lived when we first moved here!) It's a tiny narrow waste of space which will now become sort of like a walk in wardrobe! That's about all it is really.

At the moment all our sheets and towels are piled up on the bed in the spare room!

And hello bigger bathroom!!!!

And hello window!!! Always there from the outside, but previously hidden behind the cupboards.

Ghastly old wallpaper!!! 

Untiled floor......unpainted ceiling................lots to do! The next stage is to slice the end of the vanity unit off so the bath will fit!

Stay tuned!

The Library Loo!

Is it just or or is this normal? We have we decided about 500 books in our loo! We are having a reshuffle of shelving ,cupboards and furniture in readiness for 'the great bath installation' which we are determined will take place this Winter. We MISS having a bath here! The way things eventuated we ended up with yet another book case in the toilet!

Geoff disappears for hours!!!!

 

We like it! It's different! And never Boring!

Holiday Job # 567

Ducking between  rain showers and winds we managed to roll out another 100m or so of fencing to try and keep the Wallabies at bay. On this particular fence line we already have 4 strands of barbed wire (yuk, but already in place) and standard sheep fencing. This does NOTHING to keep the wretched little critters at bay so now they have 13 strand  tiny little wire boxes to try to get through so hopefully we will deter a few more. We only need to wire it to the existing fence ,then try to plug up all the holes on the ground if the land rises or falls! Slow tedious work. Lucky we have lots of rocks on the place!
The dogs of course kept snug out of the wind.....

It was fun threading the wire behind all those trees!

And the house looked quite small and insignificant tucked in under the hillside from over there!

But we are halfway ......................soon.........no more wallabies!!! Just the animals we WANT to eat our grass!

Forty Two Birches

Today Geoff and l went thieving! Well , not really thieving!! We went kerbside 'free tree' collecting!
We headed off early armed with dogs, coffee, spade, bags, a bucket and eagle eyes! Before too long we spotted what we were looking for. Self seeded Silver Birch saplings on the side of the road. Out we leap, dig them out of the gravel, into a bucket in the boot and off we go again!. We also collected some poplars and another type of deciduous tree that neither of us know what they are called! One particular place we stopped we collected 42 little silver birches pushing their way up through the blackberries and the roadside gravel! A goodly find indeed!
Once the boot was full we headed for the beach to give the patient dogs a run and us a coffee break and biccie! The dogs ran up and down ...up and down!!!

It was a glorious day...

Lilli loved it!

Waiting for a piece of Custard Cream!

We watched a few boats go by then headed home.

Our stash!!!

We potted the Silver Birches straight away

Now all they have to do is grow!

A good mornings work!

On a windy but beautiful Autumn day

Wagon Progress!

Today we had the canvas man come to measure up the canopy for the wagon. We have decided against the traditional canvas and have gone with his recommendation of pvc. It's stronger, doesn't go mouldy (which would be a real problem here!) and is more fire retardant( funnily enough) if a wayward spark from a bonfire should land on it! It will have a zip both ends so it can be opened up straight through and should be ready in about two weeks! The swatches available came in a fairly ghastly range of colours!

We settled for a sort of olive green. We need it to blend into the scenery and not stand out too much against the trees etc. So purple and pink were out of the question!!!!

We also put the order in for the tin on the second wagon! This one needs to be rolled to fit the curve of the roof. We had to supply a template for the roof rolling people to work with.

With all the necessary instructions!

And little pictures!!!

This should also be ready in about two weeks!

We also  took advantage of the glorious Autumn sun and finished oiling the deck. l did the other half last week so today we pushed all the furniture back over the other side and Geof did the rest ready for Winter.

And congratulations to Pushka who in this photo looks like she has just graduated with Honours for Rat Catching!

Well done that cat!!!