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Garden, pictures thereof

Steve — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:24:38 +0000

Huzzah!
The sprunging in the garden is most pleasing.

Some front garden action:

[Compare this to just a few months ago: yoinks!]

And a quick bit of back garden goodness:

[compare with April, and when we planted the lawn plug wotsits: yoinks!]

This whole “being outside and doing stuff” might catch on…

Bamboo screen thingy

Steve — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:57:18 +0000

Sproing helping by chewing on meep’s ears.
Ahem.

More green

Steve — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:44:52 +0000

And a shower.

:-)

As you may be able to tell from the first pic, the door to nowhere is now gone.
A bit sad to lose it, but it was kak and crumbling, so *slap* it goes.

white pipes, black pipes

Steve — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:36:24 +0000

So, this crazy trend of “doing stuff” seems to be continuing.

I’m sure it can’t have anything to do with the fact that we’ve been dealing with sub-contractors rather than the actual pool company themselves. No. Nope.

Pipes! White! For the solar heating of the pool.

Pipes! Black! On the roof, for the solar heating of the pool.

Drained and snipped

Steve — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:11:15 +0000

Well, gosh. Not only did they turn up, but they actually did some work – revolutionary!

Shame that the recoved corner bits (from 500mm to something like 200mm) are sagging in places. Ahem.

At least the cementy guys are (allegedly) coming back today.

And rumours have it that the pump / filter bods will be there too.

Fill ‘er up

Steve — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:40:15 +0000

Current sorry state of the pool:

Why, yes, it has been almost a month since they’ve done anything. Some of this is because of the slightly unseasonal amount of rain, but most of it has been because they’re rubbish.

No, we are not happy about this.

Apparently (pshaw) the pumpy filtery guys are coming tomorrow.

Unless it rains again, of course.

:-(

pool – pre-hole

Steve — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:26:26 +0000

(last one for today. got a bit carried away…)

operation: temporary configuration

Steve — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:55:46 +0000

so, we can has house.

woo! :-D

it is very awesome.

we’re very mostly unpacked (although we again have a single room full of “let’s sort that bit out later” junk), but lots of things aren’t in quite the right place. we’ve plonked everything down in an “okay for now” spot so that we can live here and be happy. bookcases slightly too wide for the slot, couch not in quite the right spot for maximum fireplace sit-and-watch-age, that kind of thing. but we are happy :-) .

so, some quick pics:

L to R: cool morning light in the kitchen; dining room; more kitchen light.

L to R: lounge from the kitchen, with parfait and meep and sproing; Shower of Doom; entrance hall.

Bonus material: sign used to ward off builders before the cats were allowed to roam the house.

We released the cats out into the house a week or so ago, and let them outside yesterday.
Followed them around for a bit, then left them to their own devices.
About ten minutes later we hear plaintive mewing from sproing.
We locate the sound over the back wall.
I get a ladder, climb to the top, and make cat noises.
Sproing then jumps up onto wall and says hello.
He forgot to take his GPS with him, obviously, and got losted (not trapped, as we feared).
Feline overlords, eh? *shrug*