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look, things go wrong, especially when one is sitting on what can only be described as an incredibly unstable platform placed on a constantly moving surface while being impacted by an unpredictable force. given those parameters it is little wonder things can get interesting quickly. and when i say interesting i mean cold and wet…
we have really tried to leave as many trees as possible in place. we had to cut down a few, due to bush fire risk management, which stipulates that depending on how vulnerable a site is (and our house is in a very vulnerable spot) a sufficiently big distance must be kept between trees and…
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the house was done, we had the road fixed up and previously also landscaped the area east, south and west of the house. the one part we hadn’t been able to get to yet was the north side, the area right in front of the house. there were a few reasons: most importantly, since this…
we finally made it: we moved into our new home. this was exciting, not only because we had never before moved into a new house we built ourselves. of course, we didn’t really ‘physically’ build all of it ourselves, but we definitely very much ’emotionally’ participated every step of the way. nat and i had…
nat and i spent the long weekend in st helens. and in case you were wondering, it was the king’s birthday – not his real birthday of course, he sort of inherited the date from his mother, and from what i understand it wasn’t really her birthday either. anyway, it was a day off so…
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that sounds great, doesn’t it? there are a few more little things to finish inside the house, and a bit more (ok: a lot more) outside, but everything works, the most important pieces of furniture are in place: we have the beds, a working internet connection and i’ll get the coffee machine on sunday. the…
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