Coming Up Roses

We have been working very hard in the garden and it is bearing fruit (literally). The lemon tree is exploding with juicy lemons and we are filling bags of them!

We also have a gorgeous rose bush that is still blooming beautifully. We will get some more for the driveway in September when it is rose season again.

Our roses are attracting the attention of the local ladybirds. These lovely darlings are helping us get rid of aphids and add some more life and colour to our garden!

But this does not happen on its own! It takes a long time to till the soil!

We have also had to till the soil where the jungle-gyms were situated. We have removed all the concrete and the soil is ready for planting. However, we will have to wait for spring in order to plant the grass.

We have a lot of blisters at the moment, but all is ready for a beautiful garden in the making!

Bye Bye Willow

Our willow tree fell down on the night of Saturday 8 May 2010! It was the only tree from the front that we wanted to keep!

 The kitties think that it is Christmas though. Lots to play with.

The Keiths came around the following weekend to help us chop up the tree. Many hands make light work

Soon, there will be no evidence of the willow, besides these photos. But we will still have to rent a chainsaw to get the rest of it away. Poor willow!

Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found

We found the blender! The movers put it in the fish tank cupboard and never told us. We have not used the new fish tank yet so had no idea that it was in there... until now! Yay for smoothies :-)

Don't Buy Plastic Taps

Even when the hardware store says it is ok, don't buy plastic taps. If you do, you just might find a fountain in your kitchen pantry one evening!!! Here is our busted tap:
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Shower Power

Rob has taken all the bits from all the broken showers and made one shower that works in the small bathroom. This was working well until we discovered that the drain water was leaking into the small third bedroom. So we can't use that bath/shower for some time! We then had to be brave and use the large but very ugly bathroom with hideous black bath and sink (at least we removed the pink toilet seat). There is a large but damaged shower in there. Unfortunately, there is now something wrong with the draining i.e. it takes forever for the shower to drain and if you take too long in the shower (which is more than five minutes) the shower almost overflows! This now means that we need to take short showers or use the dreaded black bath (with no rail for a shower curtain). Talk about being between a rock and... an ugly place!

Art Room

We have temporarily made the Wendy into an art room. These are some old pics of the process. We would like to set the computer up in there but not without ADT Security! Now, just to have some time to create some good art :-)

One Mystery Solved

We found out that the concrete supports in the garden are from a junglegym! Our house used to be a nursery school (Montessori) and one of the mothers came to see our granny flat for rental.