The Princess room....!

Oh dear where does time go?!
Late on Wednesday night we received a phone call
from a gentleman who wanted to know 
if we would be interested in selling our house


yes!
yes!
yes!


so, today we started the big clean up and toss out!


They are coming to look in a fortnight so we have a bit of time
Top discovered we actually  have quite a large
back verandah
and I spent the day here
in the Princess room!

the girls call it the Princess room because of the 

height of the bed

(you almost need a stepladder to climb up!)

and they feel we should put a pea under the mattress!

the pink curtains were, alas, inherited with the house

and to date we cannot afford to change them

(the quotes were quite, quite ridiculous!!!!)

The marble mantelpiece holds quite a bit of my

Don Quixote collection 

The golf stick leaning nonchalantly against the fireplace

was an award for a hole in one

Not mine alas!

I am a total shocker when it comes to golf!!

the salon suite is the very first antique I ever bought

I was twelve years old and it cost me 12 pounds!

the light fitting hiding underneath will one day replace the rather nasty chandelier,
but tomorrow it will find a spot in the garage out of sight!

and the mirror needs to be taken out and painted 

before it goes above the fireplace

all our ceilings are pressed metal and the patterns are quite beautiful
it also needs a bit of a clean but it's so far up I'm afraid 
it will just have to do!
Tomorrow I take on the other two guest bedrooms!


Goodnight!

Know when you are on a good thing...!

Our son's kitchen bench this morning!

Even this little chap knew to move to higher ground!

a good feed and then he was gently

 encouraged to move outside

                                      

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It is amazing how in disasters like this

 even the wild life will turn to others for help

                                                                     image from the Wellington Times

and seem to know that they should just accept it

and it is happening all over the East coast of our country

Goodnight

the worst is yet to come....!

This is not the post I was going to write today

                       please go here and read the    courier mail

but as we wait to hear news

 of our son and his beautiful family

of A-M and the boys

and all our other friends 

I wonder is there a family

in Australia

unaffected by the 

horrendous news coming out of 

Queensland

and now North Western New South Wales

with 9 confirmed dead

and 66 still missing

the death toll is bad enough

but on top of this

6500 homes will go under in Brisbane

 in the next two days

and already hundreds of houses 

and businesses

have been lost

The rain is not easing

and the wall of water that

became an inland tsunami in

Toowoomba and was responsible

for the lost lives

is racing down the valley

 toward the Capital

to meet a King Tide

I ask

 that tonight

you light a candle

say a prayer  and think

of all those in

Queensland who have lost

nearly everything they possess

and for whom the worst

is yet to come

Night

Finally...older than me!!!

I have just told a friend

that I am not

a metal kinda girl!

 only to realise 

that one of my favourite pieces in our home

is just that

metal!

Actually it is worse than metal it is

onyx and gilt!!

way, way, way over the top!

Oh dear! Do you think 

I should have dusted it before taking these?! 

the floor could have done with a good mop too!

Half way up are  the hooks for an umbrella 

or parasol as it is a French piece

Then at the top the hat goes at a jaunty angle

don't you just love the hanger for the coat? (wide and rounded

so no mark was left on the jacket)

and then a small hook for a cane!

There it stands in all it's over the top glory

I understand it is French probably mid 1800's

and if any one has seen one like it

or knows anything about it I would love to hear.

It normally hold a red Fez that UK daughter brought home

for her Father

My Father's pith helmet, rather aged and tired

but it was well worn during the 2nd World War

and a Malacca cane. 

So maybe, just maybe a could be a

metal kinda girl!!

Goodnight