I’m all a flutter this week. Since Monday its felt like I’ve been outside of my body – like I’m looking at myself from above. Very weird feeling, maybe its because I have a lot of stuff on, but I don’t feel stressed about it like I usually do. Maybe I’m coming down with a [...]

I just got the September 08 copy of Real Living magazine and on the second page is an advertisement for Domayne’s outdoor furniture. I’d really love to have a nice little area where we can put some wicker furniture and catch some sun.
I have been thinking a little bit about what renovations I’d like to [...]

So far renting out our lovely Tasmanian house has proven surprisingly frustrating. As I mentioned in my previous posts we don’t intend to live in the house right now so we have gone through a real estate agent (the same agent that we purchased the house from) to rent the house out. We dropped in to see [...]

When we eventually move into our Tasmanian house, we want to have several things done to make the house liveable and nice. These are the immediate renovations that need to be done to the house.
Necessities (things that need doing immediately):

Re-wire the entire house.
Knock down old barn style shed and attached room and patio and build [...]

You will need the following tools:

Pruners/Snippers/Secatures – whatever you want to call them
A small hand axe (if the base of the ivy is trunk-like)
A small claw hammer
Kerosene (2 litres)
Glysophate (250ml)
5 litre spray bottle
Gloves
Mask
Goggles

Pull down as much ivy as possible with your bare hands (put the gloves on first though!). Be careful because bits of the house [...]

Another ‘fixing’ thing we did whilst we were down at the house that Monday and Tuesday was to see if we could remove the old wooden laundry tub which was leaking and pretty well rotten. We thought that because we’re renting the house out, the poor tenants can’t be expected to put up with a [...]

We took a flight down on Sunday 29 June as we had to do a pre-settlement inspection, to make sure that the owner hadn’t taken away the dishwasher or the oven, light fittings, etc. Anyway, they hadn’t taken anything so that was all fine. So we got the keys on Monday afternoon and we slept [...]

Well after five months of looking at houses and thinking about things and trying to decide what is the best thing to do, we now own a house in Tasmania.

 
 
We had been looking at buying a house in Sydney (in the Sutherland shire, 40 minutes south of Sydney), but even out that far we would [...]