Operation Nest

Big house, big bed 24

Big house, big bed

That house is getting bigger and bigger. I know it’s not going to last, but I quite like the way the structure fills with the early evening sun and glows yellow, spilling fragments of...

Seachange without changing postcode 20

Seachange without changing postcode

This is the view that can be seen from our bedroom window. The people who bought the block of land next door have subdivided the property and are building a two story, three bedroom...

Seedlings 19

Seedlings

Look what’s on the agenda this weekend. I have just got back from our local nursery where I bought a small tray of the things we found most useful in our vegie garden last...

Halloween-style weeding 15

Halloween-style weeding

I spent a lot of time in the garden today, whipping it into shape ready for vegetable planting. While the kids scrabbled in the leaf litter looking for pill bugs to put in their...

Room to move 16

Room to move

We finally moved Lily’s great big chunky change table out of her room today and over to the nursery of a soon-to-be-born baby who will be living just a few streets away. It’s left...