The tart cooked.

Chocolate custard and strawberry tart not cooked.

The apple tree out in flower.

Christie in a bag.

The renovated kitchen

The dining table is now in the lounge room.

In the kitchen looking up to the loungeroom.


In the kitchen looking up to the library soon to be the sitting room.

Agatha asleep in the kitchen.

Bathroom part 2.

Walls washed and scrubbed with sugar soap, horrible mouldy silicone pulled out.

Freshly painted white - two coats of water clean up white paint and then two coats of turps clean up scrubbable gloss.

I needed to put so many coats on because it was covering a horrible blue colour.

At the end of the bath a table I have already made from the base of an old treadle sewing machine table and the top is a slab of grey and white marble, for flowers and for our clothes to be put on.

The table will be there as soon as I can give Jasmine a replacement as she is using the table for a bedside lamp table.

The outdated lamipanel is the next thing to go - to be tiled with black and white mosaic tiles - but I can't afford them until September.


New knobs to go on the vanity and I will give it some new taps.

The project deadline is end of September and then I will start on the toilet and laundry and then Jasmine's room.

The bathroom - part one.

No photos could possibly capture how horrible the bathroom was - mouldy, dirty, impractical and embarrassing.

It became run down while Jasmine and I were away from Home Cottage and it just seemed such a mammoth task and I really didn't know what I wanted to do to it.

Well now I do know what I want and I have had a week off so far and another week to go and I have started!

Some wonderful things we saw while birdwatching.

Golden Whistler - my first ever sighting of this bird!

A mother black swan with three signets - these were very far away.

Birdwatching

Jasmine's quilt finally on a hanger.

Candelabra and chandelier

The candelabra is over the dining table and the chandelier is over the lounge.

More cat photos

Thanks for the camel Auntie Kaye! We like to cuddle it when mum's not looking!!

Flood photos

I know it was back on 22nd - 24th May but I only just found the photos!!