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but we are really really close! so close it hurts we aren’t done yet, especially since it’s school holiday’s and we are forced to sleep in the shed (a time honoured tassie tradition, but still). any project manager worth their salt will tell you that the last ten percent of the work requires ninety percent…

there is no way to sugarcoat it: the render on our walls is cracking. that’s not unexpected, but, to be honest, the render could have at least waited until the paint had dried. as it is these walls aren’t even painted yet, and our painter diplomatically suggested it would be unintelligent to paint a cracked…

this has been a very long time coming, at least that’s how it feels. actually, though, we may have done alright, considering we only started last year in january, and we probably picked the worst time in recent history to build a house: material shortages, massive price increases, first a building boom (triggered by the…

you would think dirt is … well dirt cheap to begin with. and common as. turns out finding some good dirt isn’t easy, especially when it’s needed by the truckload, and we do require quite a bit to make the area around our house look good. it’s tricky business as well, as our friend anna…

it’s the new year and things are moving. maybe on quite as fast as we were hoping they would, but it’s great to see progress. good progress actually. it’s in the nature of things that sometimes it is quite easy to tell that the day we can move in is approaching, and this is certainly…