Heart's Desire

This is our backyard. Midwinter, retaining walls still under construction with their black plastic and piles of rubble and soil, and our pat...

A smattering of vivid yellow leaves can make even the daggiest building site backyard shine in the breaks in the clouds. 

Again...  Footings for our next wall. 

I haven't shown you any renovation pictures in eons, so will skip a discussion of growing eggplant from seed (or rather, a series of com...

Five meters down, only about 40m to go! We are busy packing all the rocks we've dug up back in behind there, and later on (today? In my ...

Look what I spent the afternoon doing: laying out my future vegie garden! The boards are temporary markers - just old weatherboards from the...

You'd have no real idea from this picture just how cold and wet and windy it is outside today. There are the raindrops on the window (fo...

We've moved in and I'm back at the old lappy ! I am slowly trying to read all the blogs I have been missing (getting there). I feel ...

#3 Three cheers for indoor plumbing: hip hip hooray! And, if the Gods are with us, we'll have hot water by the end of Tuesday :) #4 An a...

The idea here is to do a series of quick updates over the next few posts, seeing as I don't seem to be able to get to the old blog very ...

It was only 21c in Adelaide today, which is very, very weird for the middle of February. Most years, around about this time, we swelter thro...

I have been reminded that it's been ages since I've done a renovation update. You'd think that nothing had been happening, which...

Too many things to write individual posts about, and none would make an especially interesting blog post on their own, so here is a brief up...

I have shiny new and uncorrupted camera cards so I am back to my old snap-happy self and to celebrate I'm going to share a dozen or so p...

FIL has been busily removing the old wall cladding on our little cottage, and the stuff under the eaves too, and look what he found when he ...

With the warm weather has come a blossoming of activity at our little house. We've been painting our window frames with their undercoats...