Sorry about the duplication, when I looked at my journal earlier the other post did not appear and I thought it had vanished into the ether.

On Thursday morning the carpet was laid in the bedroom, and I spent the rest of the day cleaning the room and then washing the curtains and cleaning the windows. I placed the 'eggshell' overlay on the mattress and made up the bed and fell into bed exhausted before 8pm. At present, with only the bed in there the room looks to be quite a reasonable ( Read more... )

The carpet has now been laid in the bedroom and the room looks lovely. I spent the afternoon cleaning - vacuuming the carpet, then washing the curtains and windows. I then made up the bed with the 'eggshell' overlay I bought at Spotlight this week, which I must say has made a dramatic difference to the degree of comfort as I found the mattress too ( Read more... )

The computer accepted the challenge this time. This is a shot of Smokey between the 'aubergine' sheets.


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The computer is still limping along, and half the time it works OK so I'm holding off on sending it in for repair. The only thing it absolutely refuses to do is upload photos, freezes everytime ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to anyone who is interested. I may be gone for some time as the computer is mucking up. Think it will have to go to the Apple shop for repair, and who knows how long that will take. After a few false starts tonight I have actually managed to read my e-mail and friends list but I'm not game to try and reply to anything. It has of ( Read more... )

This the view from the side window, taken whilst the glass had been removed, giving a clearer picture. As there is a fence close to the house on that side it is nice to look out at greenery.


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This first pic is of the huge gumtree in the neighbours backgarden, taken from our backgarden. It is the bane of the neighbours, as it's roots keep damaging the plumbing. One of the neighbours living next door to them had the roots actually come up through the plumbing and break the toilet bowl ( Read more... )

Hobart's driest January in 127 years of record keeping.


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Les took this. He said it is nice that Smokey likes to communicate with his people, but actually it was his stomach that he wished to communicate with, as it was his tea time.


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