Finally, a real garden

After years of being confined to a window box, I finally took shovel to earth and dug my own garden, known in Kiwi terms as a vege patch, in the back yard. I had planned a much wider bed but after hitting very hard clay with a very dull shovel for a few hours, I made the executive decision to resize the garden. In the back, I've got black passionfruit, red banana passionfruit, raspberries, and boysenberries that will eventually climb up the trellis and shield our back yard from prying neighors. In the middle, there's roma tomatos, zucchini (known here as courgettes), regular peppers (capsicums) and hot peppers (chillis). In front there's lettuces, radishes and arugula (rocket).

Herbs, cherry tomatoes, citrus treese and olives are in containers on the other side of the house. More on that later.

It's a bit of a blank slate

We scored a deal at a modern furniture shop and got something I never thought I'd own: white furniture! Well not actually white, the color is called "biscuit" and is like an oatmeal. But the irony of being a klutz who drinks a fair bit of red wine and owning an entire living room set of lighter that sav blanc furniture is not lost on me. Trust me, I Scotchguarded the heck out of it before anyone was allowed to sit on it. Now I just have to find the right cushions to bring some color into our blank slate living room.

Moving in

Ok, I won't even start about how behind I am in blogging. But rather than belabour the point. OMG, I just put that extra "u" in labor without thinking. I must be becoming a Kiwi. Anyway, here are the much anticipated first photos of moving into our new house.





The bottom pic is taken from the top of the stairs going into the living room that flows into the front upper deck where the For Sale sign and nice sea view are. The house really defies description since it was a villa that was added on and rehabbed several times, but it does actually make sense when you see it in person. The top right pic is of the dining room downstairs, which flows to the rear deck/bbq area. To the left of the dining room is the kitchen island. Opposite the dining table/window is a small fireplace.