Attitude!

Diana Krall - Fly me to the moon

Piano - bass - vocals
What more do you need if your name is Diana Krall?

How do you know the global market 'thing' has gone a bit too far?

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Our house... I

Our renovations are not unlike dominos - in order to topple the last one there's a whole chain of things to do 'til we can get there...

As soon as we moved in in April 2007 we decided that the most important thing to do was to change the central heating. From a wood burner to an electric heating pump (takes advantage of the outdoor heat and uses it to warm our water and radiators, works like a refrigerator-only backwards...)

However, in order to do that - we would have to re-do our laundry room, pull the main water pipe over the ceiling through the kitchen - which means we may as well fix up the kitchen, not to mention the bathroom...

Anyway, here are some pics from the work so far:

This wall is to come down. Problem is it's an old outer wall and therefore structural. I want to replace it with a great big timber beam.


This is what the kitchen looks like. The drainage pipes in the ceiling are for the bathroom above.


Behind the wallpaper and plaster I found this beautiful timber. The house is 150-200 years old. Renovating it while keeping it's character is exciting and challenging.


Our tiny livingroom. Like the kitchen pic above, this is a bit of a collage - hence the weirdness...


Behind the painted wood-fiber ceiling-cladding lovely wood is hidden. Eventually this original ceiling will be do its magic once again...

All of this will take time. So don't expect lightning updates with massive leaps of progress just because this is the internet. The house is still in the real world, owned by real people with very modest means and limited spare time. But when things happen, I'll keep you posted.

Scouts 2007

Our church's scouts had a year of fun and adventure :-D