It’s been almost a summer’s day today for our houseviewing adventures – 19 degrees and not a breath of wind. We’ll not quite, it did start to blow a southerly whilst we were up in Kaitoke.
Still, the Moss Brothers build team continue to motor on starting to wrap up the house for winter which official [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Houseblogging: wrapping up for winter
Posted in Houseblogging on May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Photoblogging: Up Mount Kaukau
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The sun was shining and although there were threats of a southerly to blow in we decided to make the hike up Mount Kaukau which is right behind Khandallah where we live. It’s an uphill climb that I did on New Year’s Day where the views of Wellington and the surrounds are stunning.
It was [...]
What comes around….
Posted in Poor excuses for not blogging on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Avid readers of my blog may remember earlier in the year that this executive-domestic managed new heights of frustration with interference and mind changing of colossal proportions by the powers to be where I work. But, hey I got over it at the time so that’s all good.
So almost 6 months later looks like people [...]
Houseblogging: closing in
Posted in Houseblogging on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You have to look closer to see progress on the house build this week. After a glorious week with no days lost because of rain the builders have continued to make great progress putting in ever increasing amounts of detailed components.
The roof framing has been completed, chimney frame built, rear walls clad and work started [...]
Trip across the pond
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I escaped New Zealand this week for a quick trip across the Tasman to Australia on a fact finding mission for a project at work. You’d think that getting from Capital City Wellington to Capital City Canberra would be a simple journey to make. Not so!
It took 12 hours to hop from [...]
Houseblogging: almost a hat
Posted in Houseblogging on May 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The builders have continued to zoom ahead with the roof trusses and bracing almost in place. It’s amazing to see the house in its full skeleton. With a bit of luck and some good weather this week it will be framed on the veranda and ready to put its hat on. [...]
Numbers are not my friends
Posted in Domestic Executive Countdown on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For someone who had to retake her GSCE in Maths numbers have never been my friends. Living with someone who can delight in reading pages of numbers this is often a reason for discussion on how I should improve my mathematical abilities.
Thank goodness for spreadsheets that’s all I can say. After years of following the [...]
Viewing our future residents
Posted in Kaitoke residents on May 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We thought it was time to start to investigate our future lawnmowers and headed off to an Alpaca auction held just outside of Wellington. There is no doubt that the comic value of alpacas will keep MT amused for some time yet.
We kept our hands down and didn’t bid in the auction but there [...]
Houseblogging: there’s been a growth spurt
Posted in Houseblogging on May 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’d been warned to expect progress but nothing could have prepared us for the growth spurt that there has been on site in the last week. Despite the dreadful downpours this week the building team have take the house to the next level and all the walls are up.
Quite frankly its amazing to be able [...]
Baking for morning tea
Posted in domestic bliss on May 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
