Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend - we went shopping! But not what you might thing... we went shopping for a dunny, taps and spouts, oven, cook top, range hood, dish washer,... It is fun - for a while... The good thing is we got most of what we wanted and we are getting closer to a newly renovated house!! But we still have to chose tiles, bench tops, cupboards,...

Noises

After living for more than a week in our new home we are now getting used the all the new noises ;-)
We heard the kids scream next door.
We heard the birds singing lovely songs in the morning.
We heard the toilet whistle ;-)
We heard the crows (but fortunately only one at a time).
I think we are starting to feel home.

Summer in Cottesloe!

We will probably spent the whole summer at our friend's place here in Cottesloe. If you don't know where that is - have a look here. In fact we are only about 1km away from a long white sandy beach! Living in North Fremantle it was also just a short walk to the beach. But the beach is directly next to the harbour and one has to walk along roads with heavy traffic (including trucks) :-( But now we just stroll down a nice quite suburban street :-) Can't wait to go for a swim and then have breakfast and then have breakfast at Barchetta on the weekend :-)

Break Some Bones

After we've been to the concert of Emilíana Torrini we bought her new album straight away. And since then we are listening to her music in the car, at home, at friend's places... This is my new favourite song:
*singing* Oh make some big jumps, big jumps, You're afraid to break some bones.
Come on make some big jumps, big jumps, Life is yours alone. *singing*

New home - again

We moved again... after living together with friends for the last couple of weeks we now moved to another friend's place. It was good in a way to have a place to ourselves again but it feels strange. We are staying at a friend's place, friends that we know quite well. And now we are watching TV in their living room, cooking in their kitchen, sleeping in their bedroom... But I guess we will get used to this.

Cyclone Anika

By chance we were watching the weather on TV tonight and guess what - then named a cyclone after me :-) Yeah, one of those big tropical storms with strong winds and flooding rain. But I think this one was just over the ocean and is spelt wrong anyway ;-)

Emilíana Torrini

It was a friends birthday so we accompanied her to a concert at the Fly by Night Club in Freo. Even though I didn't know the artist - Emilíana Torrini - and had no idea of her music I was really looking forward to it, because we hadn't been to a concert for a long time.
And we had a fantastic night! She is a great singer and I really enjoyed listening to her lyrics. We actually smiled and laughed the whole night because she just made as laugh :-) She is such a happy person and she is just cute. Did I say already that we had a really awesome night?!
This is my favourite song from the concert - Jungle Drum

Moving - Again...

This is our last week at our friends place. We are going to move again on the weekend. I can't believe that we moved in here already 4 months ago. We were really lucky to find another place to stay while we do our renovations. Friends of us are going to Singapore for a couple of months, so we will house sit their house next :-)

Korean Hair Stylist

A friend of mine recommended this new Korean hair stylist in the city called KThreeG. She said she had the best head massage ever! First I was a bit sceptical but for $38 for a wash, cut and blow dry I was more than willing to give it a go :-) I went into the shop on Pier St and as expected I was the only tall, blond Caucasian person the the whole shop ;-) And I am sooo glad I went! He first cut my hair (then unfortunately someone else washed it, so didn't get the fantastic head massage, but it was still good), cut it again and blow dried and styled it. I felt great and it made my day :-)

Girls Night Out

We had a girls night out at Little Creatures - one of my favourite pubs in Freo. It was a great night that I really enjoyed being part of. About 10 girls chatted about fashion, babies, pregnancy and gossiped about blokes while while tucking into delicious food and enjoying the busy atmosphere. It was great to catch up since I haven't seen some of the girls for a long time. Great night!

Tomato Plants

Just in time for summer :-) Looking forward to salads made with fresh tomatoes from our garden.

Home Alone

I am home alone again this week. Well, not quite.. We are still living together with very generous friends of us, so I don't have live on my own :-) But since Ian changed jobs he travels quite a lot. This time he is off to Florence for a week. Oh - I am so jealous! ;-)

Asbestos Fence

We wanted to start our renovations by demolishing parts of the boundary fence, so we can enclose the car port with a brick wall. The fence was built in the early 80's so we thought it would be made of fibre cement. But now we learnt the asbestos was used in WA until at least 1985. So to make sure we actually had a piece of the fence tested in a laboratory and yep, it is asbestos :-(
Fortunately Ian painted the fence before moving in. The fence itself is not harmful but when it starts to break down the toxic fibres may get, so the paint is a good protection against this.
Anyway, a asbestos removal company equipped with gas masks and overalls came on Friday and removed parts of the fence. And we also know the much cheaper and easier way to identify asbestos fences now :-) Just count the corrugations - 7 means asbestos, 5 means fibre cement. When they had to replace the mineral asbestos fibre with cellulose fibre they also changed the design so that one could easily differentiate between the two :)

Rainy Week

It is real shit weather! It is cold, rainy and stormy. But today was the last cold, rainy, stormy day!! The forecast for the weekend and the coming week looks fantastic!

Friday       Fine.      Min 7      Max 21
Saturday     Fine.      Min 8      Max 24
Sunday       Fine.      Min 12     Max 28
Monday       Fine.      Min 14     Max 30
Tuesday      Fine.      Min 15     Max 29
Wednesday    Fine.      Min 13     Max 26

Melbourne Cup

One of the highlights this week was the Melbourne Cup. It is the biggest Australian horse race and apparently the one that stops the nation because everyone watches the most important race - which takes only about 3min.
Our secretary organised a sweep. She cut out the details of each horse from the newspaper and folded them. Then everyone who was willing to spend $2 could draw one of the horses. The person with the winning horse would win the whole pot. I draw horse number 10 - Viewed. And guess which horse won *bigSmile* It was the closest finish ever.

It smells like summer

Rainy weather the whole week and on the weekend 25C, sunshine and clear blue sky! So we went down to the beach and had the first ocean swim this summer - I could also show off my new bikini :-) Sunscreen, sand, salty water - it smells, feels and tastes like summer already.