The Green Room

Sunday, 17 May 2015

Camping out..on a renovation sight..

Living on a reno sight is..interesting..exacting..challenging and for us exhilarating..did I mention challenging at a whole different level..

..Maneurvering around broken windows, smashed cement, countless rusty nails and wood with splinters the size of hockey sticks takes being challenged right up there like swimming with sharkes or bungy jumping off the Eiffel Tower !!

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

We've finally done it..Carter's Farm

It's been a while since I've been here writing with something else taking up my every moment!! We have finally bought our long held dream farm..an 8 acre, 120 yr old house, & orchard filled with mangoes, citrus & macadamias in the beautiful Byron Hinterland village of Dunoon. Up from Lismore, inland from Byron & down from the exquisite village of Bangalow. Dunoon is the Macadamia capital of Australia (so the sign says on entering the village) Housed with a General Store filled with everything you need including your grog, a General Practitioner, a Post office, garage, local hall, club, fire station, two churches, a pre school & school Dunoon is a pretty little village surrounded by trees & tucked away on a ridge overlooking farmlands & Macadamia plantations. Why Dunoon? Well to be honest we weren't even looking anywhere near here..we had been looking around the Nambucca Bellingen area 4 hours south of here & had decided to settle in the pretty arty village of Bellingen..but as fate would have it we were out bid, out priced & out of faith in our longing to buy there when out of the blue an agent called to see if we were interested in looking at an old farm in the Hinterland that we'd never even seen or inquired about..and as the story goes it was meant to be..as soon as we saw it we fell in love..there was the 100 yr old farm house & garden that we longed to restore..there was the orchard & dairy bails that took me back to my childhood..and the big old tree near the house that I could imagine the swing seat attached too, a laden Christmas table under & many leisurely & happy family times eating and sleeping on the big verandah..well of course we have a way to go with the renovations (she is over 120 yrs after all) but already we are ecstatic sitting around the blazing open fire at night gazing up at the clear crisp night stars and wonder why we hadn't done this sooner..OK on with my Blunstones & back to work..now where did I leave my axe again..Cheers till next time.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Waiting..

So we have moved in with our daughter while we are in a holding pattern between our old home and searching for a new one..and it is time to chill and enjoy our local surrounds like this spectacular beach..

Friday, 30 January 2015

It's been a while..

As a matter of fact I've been away so long it feels like I'm starting a new blog beginning all over again..but really no..I'm not I've just moved house and have to say an impossible job two months ago has just become possible..that's it we are out..finally..and basking (well not exactly) in a job well (well not really) done..and reflecting in pain (every inch of muscle, arm, shoulder, leg & yep back aches even my ears) right now & can imagine will do for a few days..or weeks(some of my have to have or I won't survive s..t is way too heavy) and we are now officially homeless (well technically we are holed up in a hotel room, not able to face going out the door again just in case there is another heavy pile of well you no what waiting for us to store somewhere, throw in the tip or dump on another unsuspecting friend (actually my friends are very suspecting)..but seriously what a job! Def not for the faint hearted & those of the human race that lack body strength ( by that I mean well endowed in the muscle department) & determination of mind..but enough said..we are out & recovering..& waiting for our next adventure..c u next time from somewhere in the world..