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Quick house update
Well, today we did more than just talk about it... not much more, but a bit. We spoke to the people who build the house we have decided on. We discussed the changes we want made - most of which are ok except for some queries about the kitchen rearrangement. We'll see what happens ( Read more... ) -
Quick update - including house
There have been three distinct stages over my holidays. The first was spent in Canberra, mainly cooking but also being with my parents and catching up with what friends I could - oh, and sweltering until Christmas day. I've already mentioned the food I cooked and will follow up more on that in Elysantskitchen sometime soon (really). Christmas we got packing boxes ( Read more... ) -
House update
Sometime back, we organised and paid for an architect to do a renovation/new building report on the property. We spent quite sometime chatting to him and discussing what we wanted, what was important and what was less so. We also spent about an extra hour or so making out a list of what the various functions the rooms had to fulfil - note that not ( Read more... ) -
The post-christmas post
It's good to be back home again after a Christmas visit with my parents in Canberra. The weather was, predictably, very hot for the first few days - the ones where I was cooking - so I did a lot of the cooking at night. This was not a problem for me as I'm a night owl, but worried my mother who isn't ( Read more... ) -
Too good not to share
Motivational posters - you always knew it would come to this. -
Excuse me, my pedant is showing
We've been watching the TV series "The Tudors". We've just finished episode 4 in which Henry VIII's older sister gets married to the elderly King of Portugal and, a short time later, smothers him with a pillow. Now, while stranger things may have happened in dynastic politics, in this case it was not even vaguely related to the truth ( Read more... ) -
What to do on a hot Sunday afternoon
It's not recommended as a way of keeping cool, but we went out and looked at second hand vans. And S bought one. Wait - there is method in our madness... or is that madness in our method ( Read more... ) -
Memage - because it's been a while
The meme:
Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
--I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
--Update your journal with the answers to the questions
--Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
Answers to the questions that little_foxy asked me ( Read more... ) -
House update and musings on sustainability
Last Saturday we met with an architect about the house. This is a fixed price meeting and commits us to nothing, but we end up with a design report and sketches based on the information that we have given about what we want ( Read more... ) -
Waving
I just noticed that I have some invites to give out to Google Wave. Anyone want one? It's one of those things that will work best when lots of people are on it. Yes, you will need a Google id, but that's not exactly difficult.
