It's Started

The roof started coming off on Wednesday, smack bang on 7 am. Everything has been going amazingly fast with surprising ease. No surprises then when the carpenter cut through the main power line at 2.45pm on Friday afternoon, narrowly missing becoming the fried chippie, but ensuring there was panic in the house about watching the twenty20 game of cricket that evening! We have wonderful neighbours who let us borrow some power for the night via a LONG extension cord, before the electrician and Energy Australia came out this morning at 8am to fix everything.

There was only one leak after the storm last night - in the part of the house where the roof hadn't been removed. Anyway, I am hoping that's the worst and we have survived it. Now the wall frames are due on Tuesday.

Finger's crossed!

The Countdown begins

I don't believe it! We had a meeting with the builders today and they will start removing our roof within 7-10 days.

Good-bye 7am wake-ups and parking space, hello people on our roof and lots of dust. A "before" shot of our modest 1950's home.

Channelling Victoria Beckham and Kungfu Panda

Dress ups are such fun. I'm just worried about the 'tude.

Sprung

Yes, our garden finally looks half decent with plenty of flowers - spring has sprung!!!

Just don't ask what is happening with the house - we'd like to know too.

Blisters, bad knees and a belated finish

Congratulations to Andrew, Anthony, Tim & Mick who competed in the Oxfam 100km walk on the weekend. Bad knees prevented Mick and Tim from finishing but I'm sure they had a good time????

All have said "never again" but we will wait & see. I do know Andrew has had a lot of rest and is finally starting to walk normally now the blisters are starting to mend.

Congratulations!!!

Renovations or just dreams?

Well, we've got the package from the builders with a whole list of items we need to choose, along with a bunch of catalogues. Perhaps now the dream is getting closer to the reality of renovations? Mind you, I'm not really looking forward to the mess, the early starts, and the stage when the kids have to share a room so the stairs can be put in Missy Moo's room. It will all be worth it, right?

Would you have thought it was difficult to decide on skirtings and cornices, or have realised how greatly the price can vary by adding extra grooves that will just increase the need to dust anyway?

The number of times the brochures state that options X, Y or Z incur 10 - 25% increase in cost is over 15.

We now have 22 days to choose everything and then hopefully actual construction can start????

Time to farm the kids out and to hit the showrooms. Andrew is just going to LOVE that.

Missy Moo's Birthday

A great amount of fun was had by all. We had fish all over the place and no tears or tantrums!

Thanks to Susan for the fantastic photos.