building our house in Perth

My Aussie Build

4/30 L’Ile aux Goelands / 5/30 Demolition Update

March 1st, 2008

No excuses, I’m behind schedule. But hey - if you had the choice between being the first to set foot on a local picture-perfect island just re-opening after being closed for 4 months for birds to nest, OR take up the opportunity (on a boiling hot humid day that is yelling loudly in your ears GET WET) of turning meekly to the computer to look deeply into yourself to find out why you are failing to keep up with something so seemingly attainable as Post 4 (a day late) of Thirty Days of Everything…..WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE???

So instead of dwelling on the finer attributes of failing, I’ll concentrate on the pretty fish I saw snorkelling. Nemos in their hundreds of course and Picassos. Only the one turtle today and no sharks. Many beautiful butterfly fish and lots of blue fish. If I’m not careful then this is going to become Seuss’esque.

Demolition Update

floorboards go

Photos have recently come through of our floors (thanks Mel). Good to know that they are moving on to a new home as there is very little of them left in ours. As we see this we wonder if we shouldn’t have tried to keep more things from our house. But the truth is it’s harder from overseas, and in the only flying visit we have had we were sleeping on those floors.

Demolition is due any time now (have you heard this before?). The plans are almost in to council and we must start deciding prestart stuff. What is prestart? I’ll tell you tomorrow.