Truckin' along

I just got told off again! Sandra read the blog and complained we'd taken no pictures last weekend when I moved and I had not acknowledged how hard she worked.

For the record; Sandra was incredible and Ally was amazing. Both deserve the title of Red Star of the Universe.

Sandra loaded and unloaded the truck from the container. If I'd done it I would have made three journeys but she made it all go into one load. My blood sugar definitely zero'd and I had to administer medicinal coke as I drove back to RR.

When we got there Ally had put a pork roast in the oven (first meal cooked in the new oven) and her two menaces (well one menace and one Red Star) were having fun in the 'garden'.

Pork roast, fine Merlot and a bonfire of cardboard and paper is not a bad way to end a hard Sunday.

Ebony and Ivory

Today has been a day of extremes and contradictions; the blonde Maori being not the least of the contradictions. Take this photo, taken with a hand-held camera at some ridiculously slow shutter speed. Two sun-orbiting planets, Jupiter and Saturn, looking bright in the western sky.

Week the first

Well, it's a week and a lot can happen in a week. Move into a new house. Have no job. Interesting.

The flies are a pain! Houseflies, bluebottles, whatever; they are horrible and they're everywhere. You can't not have the windows open because the weather is so hot so in they come in droves. They're stupid and can be hoovered up while still alive and kicking but you can't lie in wait for them all day.

More pictures are up and long-lost ornaments are sprouting all over the place. The cherrywood table is in place in the entrance so the Rodin has a home along with the 300 million year old fossil and some mineral eggs.





One of the lumps of malachite is on the curly-legged table and various other traesures are above the windows; pink pigs, green dinosaurs, yellow sheep, silver beavers, totem poles, Nigerian wood carvings, Californian redwood, the list goes on.









I also have mirrors! The ones in the bathrooms are off-the-shelf from the builders but all the others are from Fernside. The huge one from over the fireplace in the library is waiting to be hung in the gallery but I don't have anything strong enough to hold it yet.

The office is coming together with the 'ego wall' starting to take shape; lots of photos and certificates and a few still to be mounted.

The deck table and chairs as well as the barbeque and outdoor heater are also ex-Fernside and, hopefully, have found a good home and the sunrises continue to be excellent.