Well the summer storm season seems to have come a little early this year - not that I am in any way complaining! I’ve spent the last few days trying to capture an elusive photo of a lightning strike to no avail. Fortunately it seems the storms will be hanging around for a while yet, [...]
Here is the photo of the completed project as promised….well Stage One anyway. By dinner time tonight the tiles should have well and truly dried thanks to the hot dry wind that is blowing our way. I can’t wait to clean all the tools away for however long it takes us to get Stage [...]
So we have spent the last two days building a DIY deck with decking tiles. Relatively easy to put together, until you realise that the people who built your house (who shall not be named for fear of lawsuit) are incapable of building anything in a straight line. Resulting in a lot of deck tiles [...]
Well we have been hard at work all morning, painting the underside of all the decking tiles and now it is starting to take shape and I’m painting the top surface with decking oil as fast as John puts them down. I like the way it’s coming together, can’t wait to show off the finished [...]
The house we live in is fairly new (built 2000) but unfortunately when I moved in here, the landscaping was a touch on the wild side. The garden beds formed by the rock retaining wall were choked with weeds, the only turf was out the front and the backyard was a forest of all sorts [...]
As I’m lying in my bed, trying to get just a little bit more sleep, I’m reminded once more of how the world and our lifestyle is completely unfriendly to shiftworkers. I work a continuous roster which essentially means that sometimes I get to enjoy life in the world of the living and most times [...]
