Thursday, September 30, 2010

black dogs and body art...!

Not so long ago 
I found a photo
 I felt I just had to share
 here
and today when the 'black dog'

                                                                by Rachel Howard

came creeping along 
peering over my left shoulder
and trying to grab my attention
I went for a wander on Google
 to see if I could find more on 
body art
 and found these


I'm sure this is what I look like as I meditate
in an attempt to get the 'black dog' to leave


and it took  a while before I actually
 knew what I was looking at here,
giving the black dog permission to back off
and lie down!


and maybe this is a tattoo 


By the time I had finished looking  
and falling in love with brown and blue as a colour way
 the black dog
had become more like this



Small white and totally irritating but 
also... totally manageable!




Dodie Smith said
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. 

for me it is Blogging


! ! !
Thank you all for just being here 
and once more I am linking to


Jenny Matlock and Alphabet Thursday.


Goodnight

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Blog Avenue...!


The Avenues of life can lead you
to very strange places


Some of us stay on the highways
never follow the byways


Oh what they miss


The small side road that led me to 
blog land was
unmarked, unfamiliar
and totally unknown


but with a whispered direction
from a friend
 take it, I did,


 and what enormous pleasure
 I have received
from this little side trip
down a strange avenue


Last night I took another avenue
one I had passed daily
mapped on my blog
but never more than glanced at


I thought I knew it so well after all 
on yours I had traveled it frequently
to end up in delicious places


Last night I traveled my own
I pressed


you might also like:


on my own blog


It was like a new world
Did I really write about that!
what was I thinking!
Is that really my untidy hall!
Obviously I was feeling down that night!
Oh pretty pictures, forgot I had those!


Sometimes it was like reading
 something someone else had written


But...


The beauty of it all was to read the comments
in context with the post and altogether


There are some incredibly beautiful people
out there and they visit me


I will be, forever,  grateful
that I took that first turn
off my well traveled road 
and went down the Blog Avenue


Go visit yourself
if you haven't already
the second journey
will often show you what you missed
the first time round 
in your hurry 
to finish the trip 
and start on another


I am linking to 


alphabe-thursday at Jenny Matlock


goodnight

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Family history AND a beautiful home!!!!

My family has a history with the
Hunter Valley
  
do you remember Ambrose and Bridget Rotton?
their Grandson, a few times removed,
Walter Rotton arrived in Sydney,
 via Tasmania, in 1821


He had quite a history
 which is a story for another time
 but he was one of the early settlers
 in a town called Maitland 
and he had a beautiful daughter
 named Jane (Granny Singleton) 
who in 1844 married a gentleman
 named John Singleton
John's father, Benjamin, was one of the first settlers
 in the beautiful Hunter Vally
 and in fact the town of Singleton still carries his name.


 SO


I was looking for somewhere to live in Singleton
after all it does have a lot of family history
and I found

 Hamilton Park here


Again, out of our price range at $799.000


it sits on 85 acres (and has horse yards Renee!)


the gardens are spacious


and the pool and it's surrounds


are big enough to cater for my entire family


You guessed it!



it's that red again


but in this instance they have carried the same
colour almost all the way through


with lots of white I don't think it is too heavy, do you?


even the bathroom


Although someone in the family obviously didn't want red!


I have that dressing table and at present I am wondering
if I will paint it white, yes...no?



I am not sure about the red carpet but heck I'm not going
to be that picky!


I really love this house it has that look of being there for 
a while, I love all the white and the red and most of my
furniture would fit in


Now all I need to do is win the lottery
 so we can have some money to live on


goodnight

Friday, September 17, 2010

A red door get's me every time...!

As we search for that ever elusive place
 that is both new enough, old enough,
small enough, big enough and
at a price we want to pay 
I am amazed
 at some of the wonderful renovations
and remodels
This small 1880's workers cottage in
Launceston in Tasmania can be found here


With it's fresh coat of paint 
I imagine it fits nicely with it's neighbours 
but when you enter the gate to the side


you suddenly find yourself in another era
I really like the use of the ripple iron 
and as it's me looking at this
I cannot go past the red door


now that you have stepped inside 
would you believe this is the same  house


The open spaces 
where once would have been small cramped rooms


the vast expanses of glass and the light!


I really like the use


of the red and white colour scheme throughout


and then the addition of the calming green for
the sleeping area


The drama continues at the rear of the property with  
the decking and the original shed


The selling agents describe it as

"Offering three generous bedrooms, 
master with ensuite and walk-in robe, 
separate bathroom / toilet and open plan living zone at the rear,
 this property offers
 the romance of Tasmanian heritage (1880's)
 and the comforts of modern living.

The historic shed has been converted
 to offer the property a further versatile space
 for use as a studio, wine cellar,
 library or parents / teenagers retreat. 
Full length glass doors warm the extension
 with sunlight and connect the informal meals / lounge area
 with the stylish outdoor living zone.

The materials used in the development
 of the property are of the highest quality 
and sympathetic to the class of the
 original cottage and surrounding area. "

Do you like this one?

goodnight

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

macarons....!



It has taken forever to work out
the camera to computer problem
but finally (I think) we have fixed it
so here is a pic
of my
macarons!!!!!

that I boasted about here



right front above was my perfect one



the rest just tasted perfect!!!

goodnight

Monday, September 13, 2010

history for sale...but not to me...damn!!!

We are on the search for a new home
which makes the real estate sites
my favourites
(next to my blogging sites of course!)
so I thought
I would show you,
each week,
some of the amazing properties 
I find
like this one


this is Dysart house
in Kempton Tasmania
which is within easy commute of Hobart



It has been extensively renovated


has a coach house and stables


and sits on 5.8 hectares


these are just some of the 22 rooms!


The style is Greek revival or Georgian


and it still appears to have all it's beautiful
Georgian windows


The agents are asking for expressions of interest!


the colours throughout are just wonderfully lush
I would like it fully furnished thank you!
so I could sit here for the recital each night
note the harp!


The kitchen appears to have retained the cupboards
from an earlier period,
 maybe when it was a girl's school
but that just might be a very clever renovation job!


I would not like to have to clean the windows would you?

   
some of the walls seem to have been left with
their original finishes which I really like in
homes of this age
Old for Australia!


I could spend more than


one night in any of the bedrooms


and this bathroom here is not too shabby either!!!


if you want to find out more go 

Many of the places I look for property
 are areas that we have previously lived in
so I can tell you that I know this house
I know where it is sited
 and I have admired it for a very long time
I could once have lived here,
run it as an upmarket bed and breakfast
or boutique hotel,
but I would have to have done it twenty years ago!!!!

I hope you will enjoy my property tours
now and in the future!

Goodnight

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