Up-cycling with zebras...

Having finally got over the dreaded jet lag, which the like I have never experienced before... I have settled back into a complete lack of routine but have non the less been very busy. Quite by accident I acquired a new (to me) dining table from a site on Facebook, a freebie in need of some TLC.

before

Actually it was in very good nick but I felt it needed a Ruby Starrs makeover so after a little bit of moseying around on the internet I discovered a locally produced chalk paint - there are some very funky colours - that was the hardest bit trying to decided which colour... at first I thought I would go all grown up and do it cream but the inner Ruby won out and its now a very tasteful delphinium blue and zebra print... the chalk paint was easy to apply and gave a lovely matt finish, the sealer was more difficult to master but in the end I got the hang of it and it looks grand!!!

after

I've always fancied a round table and the best thing about this is that it grows- huge, it has two inset bits to make it seat about ten people... not that I can fit a table that big into my little dining area but its good to know.

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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