With all the thrilling stuff we’ve been getting up to since moving here, there’s one remainder of Corner Cottage’s year hosting tenants that’s been weighing on my mind. There’s still lots to be done around the place, from fixing the finials to painting the portico, but all the while, silently increasing their sinister hold on …
Anyone notice how often rainbows appear in my pics of Braidwood? It really is quite uncanny – they seem to pop up a lot around here. I’m not sure whether it’s just the season for rainbows, or if there’s something about the area itself, but there they are, every few days. Judeo-Christian lore tells us …
All over the country, people are taking advantage of the newly-relaxed lockdown laws to do that thing we do as a social species – eating together. Although it’s now possible to go to a restaurant or pub if we conform to some quite stringent rules, eating at home with friends and family seems to be …
Off to the bustling megalopolis of Canberra today. Various tasks called, and as we’d also faffed around quite a lot in the morning, we only hit the road at about midday. Even worse, such was the haste of our departure that we neglected our morning coffee before setting out. Now this is a complicated matter. …
It’s all about the veggies right now and to be honest, in days gone by as we dallied idly with the metropolitan elites, I never realised that the idea of growing vegetables would be quite so exciting. Don’t get me wrong, growing our own veg isn’t an entirely foreign concept. Way back in the last …
We spent today finally getting to grips with creating a veggie garden -- a key element in our plans for the good life in Corner Cottage. The problem is, it got dark before we could put the final touches on our humble creation, so I don't have any vegetable beauty to show you quite yet. …
There’s a major flaw in this plan to embrace social distancing from Braidwood by blogging about living here – and that’s the fact that social distancing anywhere, no matter how picturesque, is still about avoiding other people. That means we’re not meeting the individuals that make the community what it is, so you get posts …
How can a whole day go by so quickly? It’s been more painting and patching today, with two visits to the building supplies emporium down the road. I won’t go into the gory details, but today we needed a ladder, a garden fork and spade, some wood glue, and sandpaper. I was in the garden, …
It’s been a weekend of bits and bobs and dabbling about at Corner Cottage. No grand designs, no magnificent triumphs, but the satisfaction of getting some niggling tasks out of the way. Let’s call them odd jobs. First up – the bathroom door. Although now freshly painted and boasting a new glass shower screen instead …
I was thinking of doing a blog about how to speak Australian – you know the kind of thing: how it’s English but not quite as pommies know it, with a few examples of amusing differences and strange usages for us all to marvel at and laugh condescendingly. But this is the kind of thing …
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