How Long Will We Be in Above Zero Territory?

I hope the heat has left the Southern hemisphere at long and weary last for you all in OZ who have suffered the terrible heat of the past few months.

It has sounded unbearable for most of the time.
Thankfully, while in OZ for 6 weeks over Xmas, Xmas was the coolest for 26 years!

But, that was it! The days began heating up and I can tell you, I was really pleased to be headed into sub-zero temps again!

...Even though it did look strange at the airport at 7 pm, middle of a heatwave summer in OZ, wearing a scarf, hat and overcoat, with the obligatory boots!

Too heavy to pack and too bulky to bring in the cabin allowed baggage...so, wearing it was the only sensible and practical option.
As it worked out, Abu Dhabi was quite cool on the 19 1/2 hr stopover, so it was a good move indeed.

So things are going OK here now.
Imre has completed the underpinning and fill required on the walls in the front room, after the water inside dramas last week.

He also removed the gas heater and repaired the wall behind that...
 and now the gas man has to come check it before it can get hooked up to the gas!

I have to apply to get the gas re-connected as they disconnect it when the place is empty.
Plus, I did not like the ugly gas pipes outside everywhere all over the walls...so I pulled them all out last year and made scaffolds out of them!

Now, I have to get new ones and go thru' all that pipe laying over my nice walls process all over again!

Hahaha, I didn't like gas, was afraid of it, had never used it, so obviously only thought electricity was best.
Not so here for heating homes it seems!

Imre has completed underpinning the front room walls and filled the walls so they are nice and flat again. After that dries over the weekend, he will begin the lovely wall jobs he does so well...after he digs more holes for the power points and cable runs.

Can't wait for that.

It should take him a day for the ceilings, a day for the walls and a day completing the power points hooking up, I'm hoping!

Then I'm going to ask him to make me one of these!

Nice floor in this room too!

I really like this colour scheme, but it's too dreary for here! Makes you think it is a converted industrial shed in New York!

A gentle lace bedroom effect in creams? Pine and lace...

I found a nice brand new Double bed mattress locally and as it is rare over here, I'll buy it and have Imre make me a bed to fit it, how I want, that looks something like these above with the 4 posts,

Will invent a bedhead for it as I go and have him cut it in a nice pattern, if I go that way...or just pad a piece of board and attach to the wall where the bedhead goes!

Just had another search and found this one. Imre came in and he said he can make it easily. I like the tiddly bits on the trim at the bed ends, plus the round finial on top of the posts. I think it is admirably suitable for this place and quite in keeping with  some of the original furniture that was left here.

Trying to work out how the curtains should hang...on the outside, but where do the tracks go...inside or outside the top frame bit???

Plus, do the curtains hang outside the posts or inside???

So,a bit more research on that is needed I can see.

The second from bottom, the lace curtained bed frame is probably the tidiest way of hiding everything, but I'm not sure about using lace yet.

Baked some veggies and put some Madras marinated tofu in the baking pumpkin "bowl" and cooked it up too. Yummo!

A bit of a difference! Dogs food cooking here...Turkey carcass, rice and vegie scraps. No potatoes or onions, but they seem to eat everything else. It's good having the stove going each day. Only used the electric stove once this week...to bake some vegies, above!

Oh dear...! The ridge being cut out for the power cables...Sigh...more dirt and dust...

Imre setting the power points cable in place, before he seals it up and covers the walls in his magic potion!

The pups are growing fast but  it is hard to get good shots of them by myself.

When Imre comes tomorrow, I'll get him to hold them down for me and take a few pics for you.

They are adorable and so playful...and messy.

My poor garden is a write off at the moment. Will get Imre to put up some wire netting around the gardens next month, to stop the dogs wrecking it as things begin to grow again..

Temp here has hit over zero, for both day and nights now, but it feels colder when it's 3C in the day, than it did at minus 10C.
Crazy!

Am off to Budapest on Thursday with friends,so will check out some antique shops for bed ideas if I can find that huge antique shop I saw on the way to OZ at Xmas.

It had 3 or 4 floors and had some good pieces.

Not that I'd probably ever buy any for this place, but checking out the shop is the only way I can find to get ideas of another era of furniture fashion over here.

Well, Imre needs something, so I'll go see him and finish this blog for now.

He needs a hand to take the gas heater upstairs until I get the gas on in a few months time...

Cheers and do take care,
See you all next week with some amazing pics...I hope!
M
xxx