passing comments redecorating.... a year on

Chair covered quite unsuccessfully - most times my project work but every now and again it goes wrong and this is one of them... it is still better then the original but not really what I wanted so I will mull it over and think how I can proceed either with a new beginning or possibly a new chair!!!!

Like a lot of people I'm finding it hard to keep my mojo going - I'm normally quite a busy person but I feel a serious drift going on and while my days remain the same they are becoming more nocturnal we sleep late and stay up ridiculously late and then not sleep very well - both Dr Fred and I are wandering the house at silly times unable to settle but also unable to apply ourselves to anything productive.

Mostly I appreciate that we do have a nice space, warm fires and grub to keep us happy and plenty of decorating when the whim takes us... I have just today cleared the hall of all the accumulated rubbish to continue stripping the wallpaper. This is a mammoth job - the whole house was covered in heavily painted beige or grey anaglypta wallpaper which requires some effort in places to remove - its a Victorian house with a long drop on the stairs and landing and we are considering (safe) inventive ways of reaching to get the existing paper off and new on!!!! I'm hoping its one of those jobs once started I will just get into it and get it done!!!!

Talking of house - its exactly a year today since we actually moved in! Today we have 8 inches of snow - very glad we didn't have to battle with such weather on the moving day.

Its been an interesting year and I guess we have got quite a lot done given the circumstances- the kitchen is almost completely revamped - we are just waiting for a new floor laying. Our living room has been transformed and I have grown to really love our orange and neon pink bedroom....

The conservatory fast became one of my favourite hang out to sew/ read rooms. It was a joy to use all summer and is still very usable during the day in the winter months but drops chilly on an evening when we retreat to the cheap seats or the warmth of a log burner in the living room

before

now...

Looking at this photo taken a few months ago makes me realise just how big our banana plants have grown... roll on spring when they can go outside!!!!

The hall, stairs and landing are next - although I am drawn to doing the dining room - probably just because it is easier haha -

So as is evident very little news from the Coundon Tower dwelling - stay safe - I'm working on adventures.....

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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