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angharad_gamI've had a few posts knocking around my head for a while, but any time I have gotten on the computer lately it seems to have been for doing feast prep, the which I am madly in the midst of. Add to that, work is a bit potty lately, and the ongoing remnants of moving, crazy birthday week, and a week in Canberra, and well, I did say I was going to be busy the first half of this year :-).
We are actually mostly unpacked, and most of the new furniture is now here, so the new house is starting to feel a bit more like a house, and more to the point, like the house we envisioned it would be. We are still getting used to living here though. We do not have the rhythms and routines of this house yet, and there are still a few lingering habits from the old house. For instance, when one of the kids wants us they still holler, despite the fact that now, chances are, we won't actually be able to hear them. I still pull plugs out of the bath very carefully. In the old house the bath and shower drained through the same pipe, and it was a fairly narrow and somewhat clogged up pipe. Unless you let the water out of the bath very slowly it would come up through the shower and flood the bathroom. We're still not quite used to which light switches turn on which lights, or the knack of opening the front door first go, or how to pick our house out when driving down the street (there's a misleading house a few doors up with a very similar mail box).
The old house was painted while I was in Canberra, and it looks amazing now - almost like brand new. All it needs is the carpets cleaning and the floorboards polishing and it might actually be fit for habitation again. There is going to be a slight delay in getting these things done, however. Last weekend we went over to put the curtains back up again after the painting and discovered that some opportunistic jerk had come by and cut all the copper piping off the back of the house. This was functional plumbing (from the hot water service to the laundry, kitchen and bathroom), and so now the water has to be switched off until the pipes can be replaced. And the carpets can't be steam cleaned without...you guessed it - water.
We are actually mostly unpacked, and most of the new furniture is now here, so the new house is starting to feel a bit more like a house, and more to the point, like the house we envisioned it would be. We are still getting used to living here though. We do not have the rhythms and routines of this house yet, and there are still a few lingering habits from the old house. For instance, when one of the kids wants us they still holler, despite the fact that now, chances are, we won't actually be able to hear them. I still pull plugs out of the bath very carefully. In the old house the bath and shower drained through the same pipe, and it was a fairly narrow and somewhat clogged up pipe. Unless you let the water out of the bath very slowly it would come up through the shower and flood the bathroom. We're still not quite used to which light switches turn on which lights, or the knack of opening the front door first go, or how to pick our house out when driving down the street (there's a misleading house a few doors up with a very similar mail box).
The old house was painted while I was in Canberra, and it looks amazing now - almost like brand new. All it needs is the carpets cleaning and the floorboards polishing and it might actually be fit for habitation again. There is going to be a slight delay in getting these things done, however. Last weekend we went over to put the curtains back up again after the painting and discovered that some opportunistic jerk had come by and cut all the copper piping off the back of the house. This was functional plumbing (from the hot water service to the laundry, kitchen and bathroom), and so now the water has to be switched off until the pipes can be replaced. And the carpets can't be steam cleaned without...you guessed it - water.
