Category Archives: General House

Yup, snow on the mountains. I took this picture from Boyes Drive, on the way home Friday. Not often we get to see snow so relatively close by. Weekend happenings: Wouter organised to pick up the jacuzzi, we would have … Continue reading →

Having waxed lyrical yesterday about my new Eee PC, let me rather give updates on the house. (Oh just so you know, I bought W the Gun Digest, comes out every year – makes choosing presents for him a doddle … Continue reading →

With the kids being away, we’re able to spend more time in the evening during the week, at the house.  We’ve started seriously to work on our bedroom and bathroom and last night W put up the wall between the … Continue reading →

You know the noise a dentist’s drill makes when he sadistically drills holes in your teeth? Well that was the noise W made when he angle grinded (ground?) our tiles into a straight line only ten times worse, drove me … Continue reading →

Was Frank’s comment when I gently chided him about using the outside paint to paint the inside lounge walls.  Wasn’t much point in me coming down on him from a dizzy height, Wouter had done that already. From what I can … Continue reading →

There was a queen sized bed advertised in the Cape Ads so off Wouter and I went with the Yellow Thing (trusty landrover) to see if we liked it. The base doesn’t have feet, but Wouter reckons he can either … Continue reading →

That’s right – Frank and his team have broken through the wall in the kitchen – I reckon it looks awesome, of course we’re a long way from it looking like anything other than a hole in the wall, still … Continue reading →

This past weekend we went shopping, primarily for bathroom hardware - toilet, basin and the like.  Sometimes it really does pay to shop around, we went into several bathroom type stores and had a look around, made the mistake of innocently … Continue reading →

Here are a few pictures of the house as well as of work we did over the weekend.     It is really quite fascinating to discover ‘hidden’ things about a house that you didn’t know were there.  We ripped the … Continue reading →