wood fire oven

At last the wood fired oven has been fired up! the last coat possibly pebbles or ceramic tiles is to go onto the outside surface. New exercise today as both of us needed to chop wood. many sore muscles tonight!
Cooked our first roast dinner tonight it was fantastic.

A very unexpected fun birthday celebration....getting younger every year now!!!

Nikki's Birthday

Technology wows us all. We are blogging from the party table at our local Italian eatery.
Wishing Nikki a very happy birthday.
Much love John Ali and Rhonda.
Nikki had prawns and mussels panna cotta and chocolate
John had prawns and pasta and gelato
Ali veal saltimboca and choccy mousse
And Rhonda cutlets and pannacotta

See photo above: we have had a few technical issues.......as usual, eh?

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Greta's guest appearance....but I might be back!

Hey guys Ali has just shown me your blog....how exciting to see some of the projects happening!!! So I'm making a guest appearance and am showing you some pj's I made recently for my nephew.  Looking forward to seeing some of your photos Karen !!!

Pyjamas for a 3 year old boy

Loved the jacket Rhonda...what a great idea for a lining! Would love to see more of your projects.....I know there must be a lot more going on in the sewing room! This blog has really inspired me to get onto some of my unfinished ones...which there are many!  Catch you guys soon!

Old blanket new coat

A gift of an excessively loved blanket caused me to think about how I could give it a new life.

shredded blanket ....sad

With some new fabric from Nadi and a need for a warm coat the quilting started..............



Add some bright red corduroy and brass studs and the blanket was launched again



Ta dah!! a warm coat for baby.

I love playing with colours and fabrics. Repurposing fabrics and creating usefull items for people I love gives me great joy.

Watch this space for more blanket projects!

Bye for now, Rhonda

Architecture in the mallee

Here are some photos of a hermit's shack near where we were working in central South Australia.

Apparently the hermit was called Ziggi and he had been a worker on the trans Australia railway. When the work finished he didn't leave and built himself this shack. The other railway workers kept an eye on him and did even organise a real house to be built there for him, but he never wanted to live in it. He got too old a few years ago to stay and has apparently since died. Sadly the shack has now been burnt down last year in an act of vandalism, soon after i took these photos.
Hey -maybe Ziggi was German, and this is the first post of the Australian -German cultural cross-over in our special interest area of architecture!
If you want some more photos, I've got them of course!. Ziggi had a bit of a milo fetish and he certainly never threw anything away.

view of Ziggi's shack from a couple of hundred metres away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entrance corridor to Ziggi's shack

inside the barricade, the shack Ziggi lived in

closeup of corrugated iron walls

And speaking of corrugated iron: wait for the upcoming installments of Architecture in Reykjavik. They know how to make corrugated iron look good!