28th August 2012
Here it is the 28th of August
and we have been in our new house for over a week, doesn’t time fly when your
having fun, who the bloody hell said that, I am stuffed. A week plus has flown
by, can’t say it was fun but we are now getting to a degree of organisation.
Nancy has been a very sick lady, she never got over that horrible wog we both
managed to fall victim to and it turned to Asthma, she has had several visits
to the doctor and is only now starting to feel some degree of improvement.
Needless to say she was unable to do anything during our shifting, which is
probably just as well as she would have ended up in hospital (mind you I think
I’ve been conned). Now that she is coming right and starting to go through a
few things it turns out I’ve put most things in the wrong places.
We work differently “she and me”, my way is
to unpack a box, shove the contents in an appropriate cupboard or drawer and
sort later at leisure, at least the place then looks tidy. Nancy’s method is to
un-pack half a box, deliberate extensively, weigh up for some time if the item
should be tossed out or kept, put it in its final resting place and then have a
lay down to contemplate the effort. Just as well she was too crook to work or I
would have ended up in jail. She doesn’t like the way I vacuum the floors
either, Nancy reckons I should move everything to vacuum everywhere and not
just the areas you can see. Let’s face it if a lounge is covering an area how
can it be dirty?
We took possession of the house late Friday
17th and started shifting small items straight away. Saturday
morning both Lisa and myself were into it very early in the morning, around
nine o’clock a couple of professional strong guys arrived to do the heavy stuff,
they had shifted our things several times and promised 12 months ago to help,
couldn’t have done it without them. By early pm all the items were out of the
little house and only loose items under the building remained to be moved so I
called it a day with the shifting and decided to tackle those things later. Sunday
was spent cleaning the old house and tidying up the grounds, Lisa did the bulk
of the house cleaning and must have scrubbed every inch of the old place. It then
took me best part of the week to gradually bring everything across from under
the house as most of it had to go into the garage and be sorted into a
reasonably orderly system, at the same time I was systematically unpacking
boxes a lot of which have been in storage for a couple of years at least. Today
I finally managed to make enough room in the garage to get the 4wd in with
plenty of room around it, I think it will be a long time however before we can
get both cars in though.
There are still some minor outstanding
issues to be completed by the builder and at this stage it is mainly a timing
issue with availability of trades people. Our kitchen splash-backs have both
been replaced and the company concerned did a very good job. The fence has
almost been completed but someone can’t read a tape measure and they ran out of
panels guess it will happen eventually. We are expecting a tiler and a painter
back on Friday to do a final touch up with the paint and the tiler is replacing
some silicon work in the downstairs bathroom, the builder wasn’t happy with the
finish in one section and is getting the tiler to re do it all.
Lawns we painstakingly laid a couple of
weeks ago have taken nicely and look nice and green. By the weekend we should
be able to start tackling the gardens at the front of the house and hopefully
our electric gates should be fitted within the next week.
The weather has been glorious for weeks
now, in fact we haven’t had rain since earlier in July. They forecast a shower
and possible storm for this Friday so we may get our grass watered free for a
change, after that there is nothing for at least a week and I’m not
complaining. The temperatures are nice now, in the mid 20’s and no humidity
yet, glorious.
I sat having my morning cup of tea one
morning last week and watched as daylight started to lighten the sky across the
Bay. Cumulus clouds clung to Stradbroke Island like giant cauliflower,
silhouetted a dark blue purple against the breaking light and as the sun crept
up it edged everything with a thin band of brilliant burnt orangy gold and as
the sun climbed the brilliance intensified throwing golden laces right across
the sky touching all the thin high cloud like golden plough lines, as it rose
higher it fleetingly picked up edges of all the sand banks and flats across the
bay creating a myriad of golden channels against the purple background until
the sun burst like an exploding ball of golden fire and then it was gone,
probably ten minutes maybe fifteen at the most. I wonder how many other were as
privileged as I was to see such a spectacular dawning of another beautiful day.
I still haven’t had time to organise photos
but will try to do so this coming weekend.
Cheers
Nigel
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