Lots of parrots

Our photo wall

I think that lots of my new blog posts are going to be about parrots.  We drove back home today to find all the cockatoos patiently waiting for us.  We'd been at the shops printing out a selection of photos that we had taken in the last year to make a "photo wall".  Tomorrow we're off to some garden centres to buy a lemon tree.

Sha is now an expert at making durian pasties.

We're both off to Parkes on Tuesday leaving Xinping in our house to feed the guinea pigs.

First impressions

We have a house!

Strange creature inside the house

You can keep drinking until the lines start to wobble

We found a use for the cutlery holder that didn't fit in our
kitchen

The view that I get each morning when leaving for work

We have a house!!  It's tall.   If you drive back from work (which is a bit pointless as it's quicker to walk) you first have to get yourself into the car port.  That's interesting as nothing seems to follow a straight line and is on an impressive slope.  You then walk up some stairs into the back garden.  From there you could, if necessary, walk onto the roof of the car port and perch yourself on the top along with the cockatoos.  In fact, as I was just getting the burnt croissants out of the oven a minute ago I saw a random guy smoking a cigarette on the roof.  Our garden is now full of cardboard boxes, two empty plant holders and a BBQ.    The plants that we put down have been eaten by the cockatoos.

Then you walk up some more steps into the dining area.  We don't have a curtain yet as Sha and I cannot agree on the colour or pattern.  Anyway, the curtain rail has been attached by a "real man" with a big drill.

You then have lots of options ...

If you turn left you enter our kitchen which must have been the height of fashion on 1971.  We have a new oven that burns the croissants.

Going straight a little and then turning left takes you to the laundry.  We have a drier that was stuck upside down on the wall by another "real man" and his son.  The real man scratched our wooden floors.  I managed to put up the plastic bag holder, but that has now fallen off.

If you go straight (past the IKEA dining table, that I put together all on my own and hasn't fallen down yet) then you reach the storage space.  It is not very exciting.

You can then continue upstairs to our level 4 (car port = 1, garden = 2, dining area = 3).  You have then reached the ground floor and can leave through the front door and our front garden.  Our front garden has some unidentifiable trees growing in it and possum droppings on the wall.  The living room has stripy wallpaper, lots of IKEA furniture and two guinea pigs.  The room has lots of lights (some of which actually work).

Continuing upstairs to level 5 you get to the spare room which currently contains a bed and my cello.  It has a view over the cockatoo landing areas.  I'm sure that our visitors will not require an alarm clock.  That level also contains the bathroom.

As you continue up to level 6 you pass some lights that are stuck high up on the ceiling and will be completely impossible to change.  Level 6 contains our bedroom and my new little study area.  The shelves in my study were put up by the "real man" with his big drill.

There also is an attic to give us 7 levels in our house, but I haven't brought the ladder upstairs yet and so I haven't looked in it.