One hallway completed...onto the next room

Finally we have completed the hallway...this was my least favourite room in the house with its pink painted scrim on the walls and dark brown wooden panels,doors and door frames...so after a fair bit of effort from both of us it is now completed....We love the old original wooden panels we found underneath the scrim and decided to keep them, we  painstakingly stripped the doors and frames and then painted the wooden panels at the bottom....looks so good now....feels like a nice place to walk through to 2 of the bedrooms and the front door...watch this space now...we have nearly completed Zacs new bedroom, the paint is on the walls and the carpet coming today...photos to come soon.

Bedroom 4 is nearly completed....

We have added another room to the house to future proof the bedroom arrangements as the kids grow older....what used to be one side of our verandah is now a cute little room...John has done all the work himself and just this week we have had the electrician come and finish off and Skippy has been to do the gib stopping...so not to far off now, this room was going to be for Hayley to sleep in and for me to have my sewing stuff,but Zac has decided he wants to move in, so all going to plan that is what is going to happen.Time will tell if he is really ready to move out of a bedroom with his sister or not...his sister is ready for him to move out...well secretly she probably isn't! They have lasted well Zoe is 11 and Zac is 8 and they have always shared a bedroom....I love listening to them chatting away to each other after lights out or first thing in the morning....so sweet

Wet Animals...trying to stay warm and dry

Meet little Wednesday

John rang last week to say he had a brand new lamb and was on his way home!!!  Joy Joy it is far to early to have a lamb and after having 2 last year thought we might give it a break this year..... Can't you try and leave it with it's mother I said!! But no she had run off with the other twin and left this one for dead...Luckily we managed to get colostrum powder off the Gardeners and some milk powder to get us started.....when he got home we  had to warm her up and dry her as she was literally brand new still all wet from the birth...She drank the first lot of milk no problem and really hasn't looked back....quite something keeping her going when she had had no colostrum from her mother...she slept inside for 3 nights with her little jacket on and became rather fond of lying in front of the fire...but out side little lambie as she was capable of making a rather large puddle very often!!!

Le Bons Bay WIld children

The Mid winter Dinner had a Wild theme...this is what the kids dressed as....A wild flower, wild west cowboy,a wild cat and another type of wild animal!

Another nice winters day spent at Birdlings Flat