11th November

The eleventh of the eleventh is always a day of significance; Ned was hanged, Gough was sacked, WWI ceased and it is my Aunty's birthday. Today she turned 96! And of  somewhat less significance but nonetheless quite importantly, new plumbing and electrical work began at number 59 Hunter St. John and Regis made good progress both in the bathroom upstairs and the kitchen area downstairs.

On the homefront I spent more hours on the net. How did people make reno choices before the net? Firstly, whilst searching for a vanity, I found an idea which we could modify to create more space in the bathroom upstairs.  It involves more built-in joinery of-course.

 I also found a site called Overwrought which makes the coolest wrought iron security doors; ones with cows and kookaburras and spiders on them. And I then spent more time playing with colours as I went back to the Porter's Paints site. Their colours are excellent, however, I don't know if that will be the brand we will use. David sent  more information about the construction of the garden beds and the choices of plants. Paul rang to say that restoration of the two old chairs from Gosford and the piano stool are coming along nicely and he is chosing swatches of upholstery fabric for them.

In between walking Sally and cooking dinner I managed to finish sorting more books. I think I have culled about one third of our non-fiction books which is not really enough. I will do a second culling tomorrow. I have 74 books on Ancient Egypt alone. It is such a good collection that it seems a pity to split it up but I don't think I could bear to get rid of all of them. And then there are the gods; my 104 little models of all the Egyptian gods. I am not sure where they will fit in Hunter St. Maybe they go with the books. This is really hard!

My Egyptian gods collection