finished

when I got home this afternoon I found that some painters had been in and had painted the next door's fence in a blinding white on my side. I am so delighted to have it all finished and can't wait to sort out my side in relative privacy. My poor arch has been bashed around a bit - when Victoria comes here next week, I hope she is prepared to assist with a replacement arch!!

and the job of these little trees is to eat lots of chook poo and grow as they can in as short as possible time.

getting rid of some fabrics

I have decided to try to limit the amount of brown things in my house. I'm stuck with the brown cedar furniture in the dining room but would prefer the family room to be as colourful as possible. To this end I have covered one of the poufs:

It's covered in a patchwork of furnishing fabrics.....I like it so much, I might also cover the other pouffe!

I've also started making a quilt for Fi's baby boy - trying to have soft baby colours with some "boy" things. There's some cowboy fabric there that was given to me when FlossnToss were tiny so it is about 25 years old! Whenever I get out fabrics to make baby quilts, I get an immediate nostalgia burst - so many of the fabrics were used for my baby's things!

weeds

I woke up this morning feeling quite strong and decided to leap out into the garden and do some serious weeding. I should have taken photos before I started - these are taken after two hours of solid work. My wheely bin is full, as is the garden refuse bin next door.

The pawpaw that Tosca discovered at Christmas is doing well

I was pleased to see that one bush has grown so tall that it is now hanging over my neighbour's very high fence and appears to be about to drop orange berries in the pool......oh dear!!!!

Nice things

I really like my newe necklace - from Racecourse Road and very cheap.

I also love my George Clooney machine which can make the most beautiful stripey flat white! I have just had a coffee and read aout Anna Bligh in the WW - I think the article was done pre-flood and then they had to scramble to get some of her heroics from flood time in!!!!

a visitor

I have enjoyed having Fleur up here this weekend. She has been very busy catching up with various friends and attending a baby shower. She made a quilt for the baby but it is not quite finished, so the mum got a photo instead and will no doubt get the beautiful quilt by the time the little one arrives!

looks great!!

I was wrong

It's a tale of further disappointment. NO - the posts my neighbour had put up were not to block the noise of the aircon etc......they were TWO washing lines. I can now sit on my front verandah and look at their undies!

Who wouldn't want a lovely view like this from their verandah? Especially when being seranaded by an extremely large airconditioner and a pool filter?

Update

There's a sort of fence between me and my new neighbour now. each day I come and find it has got a bit bigger and there has been some painting done. At the moment it is beige, pink and blue but I don't think that's going to be it...
Today I noticed some very high poles have been sunk in behind the fence in front of the neighour's window and door. However, they don't seem to be in front of the AIRCONDITIONER or the SWIMMING POOL FILTER. I can but hope!!