More Decorating!

Poor John, I've got him working again. I decided that I wanted to change the yellow walls in our guest suite so I've been painting all weekend and John got roped in to wallpapering the wall behind the bed. He's such a clever man, how was I so lucky to find him? xx

Maori All Blacks v Ireland

We've just spent the evening at Rotorua Stadium, watching the Maori All Blacks playing against Ireland. Fantastic game and really close, end result 31 - 28, Go the All Blacks!

A Sunny Winter's Day

After days of rain and wind, finally we get some lovely sunny weather. Time to get out in the garden and do some tidying up. It's starting to look under control again.

Plumbing

Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts over the last couple of months, no excuse!

Since having the leak we have found out that the house was riddled with dux quest piping, which was used in NZ in the 1980's and then banned for it's outstanding characteristic to spontaneously leak and burst, great. So the other weekend, John was able to add another skill to his list, by completely re-plumbing the house with new piping.

We then had a week of the plasterer putting right all the holes in the walls and ceilings.

My job for this week was to repaint it all. I'm glad to say that the house is now nearly back to normal, just a bit of tiling to do and the upstairs bathroom to renovate; we saw the leak as a good excuse to start replacing the old shower room and putting a bath upstairs. Poor John, will his jobs never end?

TIIIIIIIMMMMBBBBBEEEERRRRR !!!

We've found a guy that can, and no it's not John (I wouldn't let him do it!), to start taking down our overgrown and unruley pine trees at the top of our land. His name is Troy and he chopped 3 of them down this morning, the dogs and I hid in-doors!


It's now John's choice to do the clearing up himself, he has to get in with his chainsaw at some point.

Only another 17 to go!!!!

Not All Roses

We have had a couple of comments in the past that life in New Zealand is just too damn good, well I thought I would include this addition to my blog to let you lot know out there that crap happens over here occassionally too.

This weekend we discovered water pouring through our ceiling in the downstairs guest suite and on further investigation, ie. calling insurance company then plumber then carpet driers, we had a burst pipe in the cavity wall upstairs. As you can see from the photos our beautiful house now needs a bit of repair, once it has dried out.

Circus Tricks

This weekend, John was practicing his Circus routine on the roof......not really, just doing a bit of bird proofing of the guttering, reminded him of the good old days of Aquila in the UK.