Another update
At least we are getting typical Qld winter weather now, so perhaps the El-Nino thingo has finally moved into another cycle at last and maybe next summer won’t be as dramatical as the lat one. Although I must admit summer in South Australia, particularly Victor Harbor (yes the spelling’s correct) was very pleasant.
As mentioned in my previous post we shifted David into the unit while he was away and the same afternoon with our garage being finally empty after so many years, I carried out a quick paint job. Walked out to the wheelie bin, dropped the roller etc into and pronounced that was the last of any house painting for me.
“The House”
As for progress with the house sale, to-date we have had four open house viewings and one private inspection. We now have a contract subject to finance and the deadline for that is 29th June, if that’s Wednesday week. A building and pest inspection was carried out today, you would think I was going in for major brain surgery the way I felt this morning but we had a clean bill of health and all was well and although I knew everything was ok you always fear the worst. Nancy disappeared shopping beforehand and left me to stress out until it was all over, so when she arrived back and inquisitively asked how it all went I just frowned and made a sighing noise. Should have seen the panicky look on her face – that’ll teach her.
Of course while the inspection was on I had the opportunity to meet and chat to the young lady who is potentially buying the house. Louise, who turned out to be a most delightful young Chinese girl, who had attended three of the open house inspections plus the private inspection that she had requested to enable her mother to come from out of town. I get the impression mum and daughter were looking to buy a place, but when we had the house designed and built 24 years ago we didn’t consider traditional Chinese followings and superstitions. Apparently our house doesn’t meet the requirements of Feng Sui, so although mum liked the house very much she doesn’t want a bar of it. Louise on the other hand is quite westernised and loves the place and has decided to go it alone – fingers crossed.
Art
I’ve had a little more time to practice watercolour painting during the last couple of weeks and things are slowly improving. At this week’s lesson I was given the opportunity to do a painting from one of my own photos (actually one of Lisa’s) and selected a street scene in Europe somewhere from a black and white photo-copy. According to our artist tutor street scenes are quite difficult to do in water colour and as I had elected to use the most difficult method to paint it, I was up for a bit of a challenge. Fortunately Maria Field is an extremely good and very encouraging teacher, so with the benefit of her demonstration first I eventually knocked out an acceptable impressionistic street scene together with people. The end result, although no master piece, was pleasing and very encouraging for me.- I think I can see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
That’s all for now
Cheers
Nigel
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