Post Party Tidy 30 & 31 July 2016

Had to leave by 9am - as I had a hair appointment at 11.30.

However as they say, best laid plans...

We were rudely awoken very early in the morning by inconsiderate builders who were behind schedule and so decided to do a completely illegal concrete pour that went for at least 2 hours from around 4am...

Not happy, in fact, Justin got up to investigate what was happening, as it was pretty noisy.  And the powers that be couldn't/wouldn't do anything about it.  Very frustrating.

Eventually got back to sleep, but that meant sleeping in a bit, and therefore a later start.  We were also transporting some furniture etc in the ute, so that had to be loaded up  took additional time.  At least it was blue and sunny.

But, unfortunately not the whole way.  In fact it rained for quite a while and Justin was afraid that the furniture (cabinet, grandfather clock etc) and electrics (Oven from Karen & Mark etc)  might get ruined (they weren't all covered).  Luckily all survived.

new old clock

Along the way, we saw how wet it had been,  not just puddles, but sheets of water in some paddocks.  It's been a long time since we've seen that.

Anyway, got there late (had called Michelle to advise), and had my haircut.  Justin did too.

Anyway, too look this good, it took a few hours....so got home after 2 and had a quick lunch, and a read of the papers.

Emily - an Architecture student and her boyfriend dropped by around 3.30pm - as she had wanted to look around the house.  So we gave them the grand tour.  They were very nice, and gave me some flowers in appreciation.

Didn't really do much afterwards - read the paper some more.  Didn't want to do any gardening, too damp and gloomy, and didn't want to get dirty.

Had another cheese and biscuit picnic dinner upstairs with a nice fire.  All very cosy.  And we watched Sideways - which I had remembered as being quite funny, but was actually somewhat morose.  Tried to watch A Bridge Too far afterwards, but was falling asleep (because of our interrupted sleep the night before), so we had to go to bed.

haircut

spread out our picnic on the party trestle table

Sunday, and we moved furniture around - as we wanted to have turn the study into a bedroom, so took another single bed down there, and took the day bed from Ocean Grove up into the Music room/library - not the dormitory anymore.

re-setting up the day bed

Also organised for my old brass bed head to be fixed up.  Turns out that the curly bits on the end are actually steel, not brass, and so can be soldered.  Took it down to the wiremakers and they will fix it for us.  Hooray.

Justin was also concerned that there was no fender around the upstairs fireplace, so we bought a nice old wooden one from Denise & Steven

 And looked at some at the other shops

Here's one we were considering...nice cast iron one - not quite long enough though.  Didn't take  a photo of the one we actually bought though

cast iron grate

One of the shelves in the kitchen cupboards also collapsed - too hard to fix at the moment, so just took everything out, and may see to it next time.

broken shelf