New house

The new house...

... is an old house

The new place is slowly taking shape now and another trip to the dreaded Ikea and a morning's wardrobe building has left the house looking much more homely. That's the way to spend your limited free time, that's for sure!

The back passage - leading to...

... the back yard

Anyway, that should hopefully be the last of it and except for a couple of wee interior design issues, we can start to enjoy the place. As promised, I took a couple of pictures this morning although you can't see too much as things are still somewhat "under construction".

The kitchen

The living room

The balcony

Happily, the cat seems to be settling in now too and we can let her out knowing that she'll come back again. This has relieved a great deal of stress for me! The armies of enormous Huntsman spiders out in the garden haven't breached the house's defences yet either so it's all good. For now!

The air con - cool

The cat

Capertee camping

The vast Capertee Valley

I'm back! I do have a pretty good excuse for the silence this time though as I've been moving house. After a couple of weeks of lifting and cleaning I can thoroughly recommend that noone should contemplate moving house unless its absolutely necessary. Its possibly the most rubbish thing that ever has to be undertaken. Miracles do happen though and I got my full bond back and I'm now pretty much set up in the new place which is a small two bedroom terrace with a very nice back yard and air conditioning for the summer! - pictures to follow soon I hope. Now I just have to get used to living with another person (Emily is here too) and a cat.

Driving in

After all that hassle I finally managed to get away at the weekend for the first time in ages for a spot of camping in the Capertee Valley on the far side of the Blue Mountains. Its always very nice over there with the guys and once again it didn't disappoint. No new birds for the list but the Turquoise Parrots showed up again which are pretty rare and pretty pretty. There was also a Wombat blundering about in one of the paddocks.

Can you see the wombat by the tree? No....?

.... there he goes

Although it was down to freezing point at night, the days are beginning to warm up a bit and hopefully spring is on the way.

Cold morning