Mad and I had a girly start to the weekend, as it was just the 2 of us for Saturday. Given that she was a little reticent about coming, I wanted her to enjoy it
We arrived before lunch time, and went and saw the op shop ladies, and Denise and Steve. - so a social start to the day.
Then a pleasant lunch at home, out in the garden
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| me at lunchtime |
Read the papers
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| Mad at lunch time |
And I decided to attack the upstairs window onto the veranda. There were a couple of superfluous fly screens on them which I removed. Who know why they were even there, as they were stapled to the front of the windows, so if the window was open the flies would still get in
The screens were thick with red dust, and the windows were also filthy underneath. Mad elected to come and help a bit also
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| picture of window with flyscreen and my reflection |
Once I had removed the screens you could really see how dry and thirsty the window frame wood was
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| very dry window frame - needs a coat of protective paint! |
Next step was washing the window
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| 1st swipe of washing the window |
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| Mad assisting |
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| me cleaning up #1 |
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| me cleaning up #2 |
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| me cleaning up #3 |
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| Basil inspecting |
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| Basil moving on |
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| Basil close up |
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| and Basil again |
Removing the screens made a big difference - so I was quite pleased
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| look how clean it is! |
I made Mad a couple of baked potatoes with ham and cheese etc for dinner, which she quite liked, and then we set the movie screen which I'd brought up and watched a couple of Sherlock Holmes episodes in bed. Very cosy! And she also admitted that she had quite a nice time with me in Inglewood
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| movies in bed |
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| a panorama shot |
Karen and Mark arrived with another trailer load of yuccas around lunch time on Sunday. And Justin and Fraser arrived a bit later with a lovely table from Jan and Peter - which we've put in the upstairs big room
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| manor house table |
As an aside, we had also brought up some light fittings which had been at Tooronga Road, not to mention the old cubby house which Justin had built when the kids were tiny. We actually brought the cubby house up the Saturday before, but it was a lightning visit, so I didn't write about it. It was a palaver to move it though. First I had to get accommodating Glen Iris neighbours to help lift it onto the ute, and then we went to the butcher shop in Inglewood to see if some beefy butchers could help unload. All good - what kind/helpful people we know!
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3 x light fittings
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| The cubby house back in Glen Iris #1 |
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| The cubby house back in Glen Iris #2 |
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| Clancy and Justin |
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| the cubby house transported to Inglewood |
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| The cubby house - in a temporary spot |
We also hung a couple more pictures in the Chinese room
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| a couple of new pictures |
And attached a present from Richard onto Justin's trusty akubra hat - you can't really tell, but the pin says back to Inglewood 1907
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| akubra close up |
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| akubra not close up |
Now, back to Sunday, we had some lunch, and then got down to it. Justin & Mark dug holes, and then planted the yuccas - hard yakka!
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| the post hole digger is very handy |
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| Mark inspecting |
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| the boys are just to the left of the peppercorn tree on the fence line |
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| our new yuccas |
I did some more wall paper stripping
And Karen supervised from the veranda
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| enjoying the weather #1 |
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| enjoying the weather #2 |
Pub for dinner
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| Add caption |
And then movies under the stars back at home
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| setting up #1 |
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| setting up #2 |
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| just about ready |
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| ready |
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| Enjoying ourselves |
It was a lovely night, warm, without being hot, no wind, minimal insects, good friends, chilled wine, this is the way we should always watch movies!
We had a leisurely start to Sunday (I watered the garden of course), Karen and Mark left before lunch, and Justin and the kids after lunch
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| Justin & Mad making lunch |
Jill B & Mick dropped some wine around to us - how's that for service!, and they also brought me some purple iris corms and coloured freesia bulbs. I was touched, as we'd discussed them a while back, and they said they'd give me some, but that was months ago.I was thrilled that they'd remembered, and planted them all
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| irises ready to be planted |
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| freesia bulbs |
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