long time no post

The obsession obviously waned, haven't felt like 'posting' for quite a while. In that hiatus we painted the inside of the house, we discovered that we had a leak in the roof of our motor home and Christmas came and went.
The painting was not as bad as we had thought it was going to be, Michael proved to be a dab hand at the roller and I preceded him around the rooms 'cutting in'. We paced ourselves quite well, doing one room at a time, with a couple of days rest in between. We haven't done the outside yet, we have to wait for cooler weather. The bush flies descend on our area in late November and we didn't fancy picking them off wet paint or trying to paint with the dratted creatures crawling over us.  The house looks a lot brighter and we changed the furniture around in a couple of rooms, giving it a more open feel. I actually did some decluttering too, not all the 'junk' (trinkets) have gone back on display.

       The new hall way - hall way and front lounge in the lighter green, our 'gallery wall' in granny smith green.

                                                            Michael does get a little 'splattered' using the roller.


Michael spent ages researching on the net for a solution to the problem of a leak on the van roof.
The problem arose because the van has a flat roof to start with, the weight of the air conditioner on the roof has caused the roof to sag and water puddles around the a/c unit. The seals are not that good and the water runs down into the roof space, finds a gap in the interior ceiling seals and ....drip... drip... drip. Why caravan and motor homes are not 'domed' we don't know, but the problem is the subject of much discussion on camping forums. We considered a rubber paint solution but decided to keep that option in reserve, trying another approach first. Michael took out the a/c unit and rebuilt a wall around it, replaced the seals and siliconed every join that he found. Fingers crossed now. We'll  have to wait to next winter to test it, as we may not get any rain until May or June.
We had our usual very quiet Christmas, a couple of lunches out with friends in the week before but a very lazy day, just the two of us on Christmas Day.That new computer in the office hasn't materialised yet but Michael did get an ipad mini for Christmas, I got a very nice Honda Brush Cutter, for all that work in the garden over winter.

 On Boxing Day we drove down to spend the evening and night with our friends Ralph and Hanny. They very kindly drove us to the airport on 27th for our flight over to Sydney where we were going to spend 10 days with Michael's cousins. One in Sydney's northern beaches area and then up near Newcastle, in the Lake Macquarie area.
That's the next blog.....