INDOORS 45

Here we have the after-Christmas-dinner candles and port wine scenario from the 2017 festivities. Following, is my late December 'got to do something' pantry turn around - yes, not just the usual shuffling of a few items into best before dates, but a total re-do.

This time I put things in groups, such as all the fruit and nuts, all the raw food energy bars, all the chestnuts, all the curry kits...but still in order of best before date.

It looked a bit messy, and I was sure i could reorder it in a neater fashion - so on NYE, I took everything out, wiped the shelves clean, and put things back.

That takes us to February - at which point I got down to serious work on recreating a coffee lounge out of the former outhouse-darts room-dining room-store room.

As you can see, the room was used for gum boots, paint, and bags...also chilies and other plants, tools and planks of wood.

My first task was to polyfill the exterior holes and cracks in the brick work. Once the weather permitted this at the end of the first week of the month, I was ready to begin the slow task of turning a messy grubby room into a neat and tidy lounge with coffee table, sofa and carpet. The first job after the external brickwork fix was to remove most of the interior cobwebs, which I have now done.