bogs and bathrooms

June 12 2016

We have a long weekend for the Queen’s birthday, but it doesn’t make any difference on the farm.  The goats still have to be milked and the other animals fed, so work goes on as usual.  It is rather wet and muddy out side so I have spent the week working on the shower and bath area.   This has had to be waterproofed and painted. The top was tricky and involved rather precarious ladder work but the lower levels, where the waterproofing had to go, were less dangerous.

It is taking us literally years to do this bathroom.  We were seduced by pictures in glossy books of magical bathroom with very desirable curves, and launched ourselves into the unknown as far as construction work is concerned. We are now at the stage that we need the plumber back to make sure that all the tap ware fits and works and then we can do the tiling.  Tiling is the main work still needed to complete the house.  The kitchen and mudroom also need doing.

Edd is home from hospital again and working hard at exercises to get his knee bending.  He rests between exercises and is going through the old blog writing down the tasks we did for rebuilding!  The class action action lawyers have asked us how many hours we worked on rebuilding!   Wow!  I am sure that they really don’t want to know, but we reckon if we go by what is documented in the blog they can’t argue.  Just working out the tasks and how long they took is a mammoth work on it’s own.

The wild weather has mostly past and Tasmania has snow to follow the floods. Tasmania is very beautiful but I have no desire to live there.  Some luxury beachfront homes in Sydney have been undermined by king tides and Bo’s parents in law got on a cruise ship there on the night of the storm. Our own mud is pretty depressing but at least it is not very cold.  Already the sun sets in its mid winter position to the right of our little hill at just before five.  This means that soon the solstice will be reached and gradually the light will return.  I am not sure I will manage a mid winter feast this year with Edd out of action.  Perhaps a small gathering of friends would be enough.