Nice.....But

Don't they look fantastic, beautiful shrooms. their yellow tops, with the purple of the native violets, an absolute picture, err but the smell, see that black dot in the middle, well thats a fly, yuck, and they were slimy. ehuuu.

Just like coming home, it was great to be back, but the smell. No eclectricty, -- dead fridge, errrr. I left it to Handy, because I hold him responsible. First because he jinxed the fridge, yes, he was worried about it before we even left the house. Secondly, (which I detected the next day) The electricity failure, was because of his lack of Handiness. We have had a broken window in the kitchen, for over 12 months, in winter I put a bit of cardboard over it. Well it rained, and rained and rained, while we were away, and water came in through the window, shorted the toaster, and ta da, one dead fridge. He cleaned it out, I unpacked the car and ignored his dry retching. It was really rank. and because we are a team, I finished the job off. I got rid of the smell by wiping it out with vanilla essence, and put in a box of bi-carb. Its fine now.

Off to the Markets

Years and Years ago, in a past life, i did the markets. Handy and i did them when we first got married, but a life with babies wasn't condusive to a market lifestyle for us.

When i do a market stall, i like make everyting, its just so much fun.

I'm doing it because i'm at my happiest making beautiful things, cutting sewing, gluing, laughing at my own jokes.

I'm going to focus on Hats, because I don't think you can buy anything decent, that isn't made in China. I don't want to keep on buying Made in China Stuff. So i'll run with my own little Sweat shop, with me doing all the sweating. These hats are made from my collection of vintage fabric, and I will have another design this week.

I'd like to get $40 each for these hats, at the markets, and when i get it together, in my Etsy store.

Plumbing the New Tank

......................Beau helping her Dad, install the new tank....................

We have water restrictions, due to unprecedented drought conditions. Water restrictions mean that we have 4 minute showers, and the kids only get fully bathed, altogether every other day, (they don't mind).

Water restrictions also mean, you can only bucket water for one hour 3 times a week; no fun in that.

So we bit the bullet and got a 10 000L tank, cost $1 700, and we will get $1 300 back in rebates, in a few months time.

I wanted the tank so that i can grow vegies, and fully enjoy the watering, which i think is one of the best parts of gardening, and secondly so that the children have water to play in, they haven't had this luxury for several years, as we have has no sprinklers or childrens wading pools.

We installed the tank ourselves, which was reasonably stressfull, as H.A. (read Hubby) is no tradesman but loves handy man work, and needs me to help, but often fails to tell me how.

All this handy work is further comprised, by the SPECIAL LANGUAGE OF PLUMBERS. , Yes plumbers have their own language, they are the only people who know that a fitting that is called 32mm is physically 40mm and a fitting that is called 25mm is physically 32mm. This is why plumbing is such a specialised trade, you have to know these tricky things, and because we don't, it took 3 trips to the hardware shop, wow.

So the tank is installed and we have even had rain, Yeah.