We've been sick

Sorry about the long silence. We've been sick. David crashed after his trip to Sydney, with fever, throat, chest, the works. Nurse Susan tried to look after him as he lay in a crumpled suffering heap in bed, showing caring concern while trying really hard not to breathe in.  But the infection control measures didn't work and pretty soon, Nurse Susan came crashing down as well. It must be a very contagious bug.   We are getting over it now, so don't worry about catching it off the blog.

Just to make life more interesting and easier, this bout of illness happened to coincide with our move from our former rental property to the one we are now in. This has happened during the week just gone. We have only moved next door, to the adjacent villa which is also owned by the same landlords. They kindly offered it to us to help us out. In fact it is their personal home in this area. They haven't actually lived in it for more than 3 years. They live in Gunnedah, in some units he built to service FIFO mining worker types. So this new place is very nicely appointed as you might expect for a rather well-off builder's own place. The problem for us is that all those very nice appointments totally fill up all the available cupboard space.  Before we could move our clothes, food, toiletries and cleaning consumables in (the basic necessities in other words) I had to clear out space in a few of those cupboards, by putting some of their things in labelled plastic bags in a bedroom. Our furniture and other stuff is going into storage - hopefully in the garage of the new house. I'm trying to be grateful, but frankly I can't wait to get out of here and into our own place.

On the subject of the new house, would you like to see some more boring photos?

This is the garage, full of tiles. Tiling starts soon.

This is Ross the plasterer, doing his thing with a sort of hybrid sander/vacuum cleaner

This is the south facing side of the house, yes it is still a sea of mud out there. I'm standing on the dam wall to take this photo.

Matt, our architect wished for the front portico form to be strengthened. "It's an architect thing" he said. So, it was done. We do try have things modified to "please your old architect", as he put it! Within reason, that is.

This is the kitchen space. Hopefully, an actual kitchen will be in it within a a few weeks. 

The waterproofers have been at work. This is your shower.  It won't stay that colour.

We visit the house to see the day's progress almost every day. It's all very exciting.

And, just to finish, a lovely little baby wattle bird on the bushes outside our dining room window. Cute, eh?