Much to my horror, in the midst of all the chaos, my sister announced that she and my brother in law were unable to wait any longer and were planning a visit. Looking at the state of the cottage I realised that it would be a very long wait indeed until completion of the renovations. On one of our walks around the town we had noticed a gorgeous cottage in pretty gardens which flowed down almost to the lake edge, closer inspection showed it to be a B&B or rather a self contained cottage. Perfect...

SummerSkye

The past twelve months have brought lots of changes, once again I am back in my beloved Tasmania, though in a different area to where we previously lived. This time fate has brought us to the central west close by the majestic Cradle Mountain area.
We purchased a cottage, sight unseen, via a realestate website; to be honest we did know the area and had house hunted here previously, it was the cottage itself that was an unknown factor. The photographs looked promising, it certainly had potential...

SummerSkye

I have just spent over an hour writing out the first piece of my blog ... only to lose it all when the computer shut down IE for some unknown reason ...
Out of time now so I will return and retry tomorrow ..

SummerSkye

I was ruminating in the bathroom when my gaze lighted on one of the many plastic tubes thereabouts, it was a black tube, standing on its cap and proudly proclaimed “Nº7 Intelligent colour”.

My thoughts went straight back to the 1960’s when Painting By Numbers was a new craze and children would receive small, simple pictures with about six tiny plastic pots of paint and an embossed cardboard “canvas” about 16cm x 10cm. Though still at primary school, I took this to be something of...

Clunkshift

having to attach a couple at a time despite resizing them

JG