what spring brings

so it has happened, we have moved back to sydney. it is very weird, i drove in to work this morning through the northern suburbs and felt very surreal. i was born and bred on The South Side and the north side of Sydney harbour is like a whole other planet to me! trent however was born in manly hospital so its like coming home to him. the move itself went relatively smoothly, apart from trent having to wait till 430 in wollongong for the f*%$wit real estate agent to 'inspect the curtains' which we had washed ironed and folded but not re-hung, before he would release the bond. yes thats right, we ironed the curtains, and they want to argue about them. thankfully that is the last real estate agent we will be dealing with a for a very long time. why is it that if you rent you get treated like crap?!

anyway, i have lots of pix. firstly, this is the view from the back porch at 5am on our first morning (we are still getting used to being able to sleep in):

nice picture trent. that is mist rising from the hawksebury river as it winds its way through the kuringai chase national park. (on that map, we are the bottom of the cottage point section). this is the traditional lands of the garigal people, whose land it always was and always will be, and it is a truly beautiful piece of bush, classic australian, sandstone, fire-prone bushland, full of kookaburras, rosellas and wallabies.

here is the front of the house:

it is the original house built in the 1970s for a family with 4 kids, so it has 5 bedrooms. one of them has yellow painted walls, and there is yellow daisy wall paper in one of the bathrooms. in fact, the bathrooms should be demolished, but we are going to spend some time painting and fixing up things that have been let go.

one of the first things i set up inside was, not surprisingly, the new knitting corner. here it is in all its glory!

this is the view from knitting corner, thank you very much:

cup of tea anyone?

this is the view of the back of the house, that fence-y thing shields an in-ground pool - i am actually looking forward to summer now!

here is the back yard for the dogs to run in (4 or so acres of it):

i think they like it:

and here are some of the first signs of spring - a bottle brush:

and some bulby-type things. bells will know what they are!

there is still a lot of unpacking to do, and the place has been let go a bit so we have a lot of weekends at home to look forward to, and if i had known that garbage night was tuesday morning i would have been a lot happier, but so far its going well and i am trying to shed my disbelief that this is our place, this is where we live now. the only sad thing is that bob is not here to see it, he would have been very happy.

on a final note, before i go do some actual work, is that lily is well and truly finished and i am wearing her as i type and am so happy with it i keep stopping to admire it! my only problem is that the ties dont line up making one side look shorter than the other if i tie it tight, so i will have to fix that, but otherwise its come up so much better than i expected. here it is blocking,

i will take better pix and blog the whole project soon.

thanks for all your moving well wishes, hope you are all well and happy.

k xx

eta: lily pic re-added - bad blogger!