Do more gardening....if I can find the garden beds!! I want to buy some large terracotta pots...the kind with big wide top openings..and start a plantation of Yukkas and all the wonderful coloured grasses and then flat bush granite rocks...that one can pick up for free around here...put those down all over and start discovering all the amazing groundcovers = no more weeding, no more ,mowing, no more whipper snipping. I've been off my feet for three years or more...forget now...and the garden has gone to pot. Started the Nes Year's resolution this morning...all the whipper snipping (wonderful gadget the whipper snipper!), and hedge clipping and weed poisoning done...Ahhh that feels better. Its a start. I thought that if I did this on New Year's Eve it might be a good omen for the rest of the year. Next I'm going to position a great Oriental sculpture outside the front veranda door and paint the door red....just a touch of the Oriental...not heaps.

EVERYTHING! This is the old kitchen in the even older house we have started to renovateStrip everything out, wash nicotine from walls & ceiling and paint (colour undecided), replace cupboards with lime washed or antique white timber, stainless steel bench top that incorporates gas rings and sink on left side (no wall cupboards on that side), Dresser style cupboards on right hand side, maybe an island bench, knock window into french doors to bring in more light, Marmoleum on the floor (probably red).....once the builder has opened up the room by knocking out the walls framing the picture!

The Olympic organisers supply the herrings and each athletes country supplies the herring applicators. Locks are standardised since the old days of chastity belt removal races, now discontinued.

i LOVE this sunroom, so peaceful this mid century living/dining room is also amazing!