Only a few more days left before the girls from OZ leave to continue their journey, beginning in Split, then to Santorini and beyond.
They are making me quite "travel sick"...sort of like being home sick, but for travel instead!
I originally came here to find a base and travel for 2 week periods, then come back here for a rest, recharge and head off again somewhere else.
But somehow the hostel idea crept in and consumed me and I've had a ball implementing those ideas ever since.
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| Hair cut anyone? |
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| Our own in house barber... |
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| Beautiful colours in this one... |
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| Tomatoes peeping out from everywhere...ready soon. |
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| Serious stuff, this painting of toaster fork handles... |
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| The start of making the stools for the deck... |
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| A few days later, lots of ripe tomatoes and yummy basil. |
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| Some weird shaped and coloured tomatoes... |
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| Some beautiful gladdies with unusual contrast colours... |
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| Beautiful... |
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| A wild vine grew over 6 weeks and created a really nice privacy screen! |
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| Will try and get the rest of the fence covered! It looks good. |
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| The drum painters at it again! |
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| I just told them to be creative and do their thing! |
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| Looking good...Zoltan will cut the bottoms of the drums straight when next he comes... |
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| Getting there... |
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| More trims tomorrow when they dry off! |
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| Had to get the gutters done...finally! |
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| A bit of a disasterthere...Am too scared to open the cellar door as I'm afeared it will be full of water from all the rain this week... |
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| I'm sure I heard..."Rapunzell, Rapunzell" from my window and raced across and threw out my golden locks...but he kept on climbing up... |
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| Yeah, well, about time I think! |
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| Check out all the moss that was along the entire back rusted out gutters... |
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| To celebrate my new gutters, I had a champers brekkie this morning, Sunday. |
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| Found this under the bench in the kitchen...hiding. Any wonder it hid...its mother would have hidden it too! It was a potato gone wild. |
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| Cooking plums and apples... |
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| My breakfast view every day... |
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| This is one wild petunia plant! |
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| At last some orange is blooming! |
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| Very happy with one rescued wine vat, but the other 2 are a no go...we don't know how to start on them! |
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| Breakfast time for the girls...amongst all the temporary workshop gear! |
Well, that's it for now.
Am making a devils food cake...forgot I was supposed to make a Black Forest Choc cake for the girls farewell party tomorrow night.
But I think both cakes will be eaten up anyways!
More pics next time
Cheers,
Mary and The Girls from OZ
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Loving all your flowers, especially the two coloured Gladioli. The vine is looking fab on your fence with those purple flowers & as you say makes a great privacy screen for you.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh - what a sight - that poor ugly potato ;-).
What you & the girls & all your other helpers have achieved is so amazing. You have a fabulous home. Keep the blogs coming ;-).
Thanks Karen...The girls went yesterday, so am having a lazy day before getting back into work here. I'm pleased with all the nic -nacs we've done, so tomorrow I'll sort out the final layout and hope it will all come together...nicely!
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