Flat-pack fix

We may be suffering from flat-pack deprivation. Peter decides that the house is not complete without some kind of book storage, and so it's back to IKEA. We settle on some EKAT square shelves that we can add to if needed, but so far we're happy with just three units. They take only minutes to assemble, don't even need an Allen key. What kind of fix is that?

Guests come, and keep coming

As noted in the last post, we have the link between the houses complete for Helen's birthday party on 28 July, and the family wander happily back and forth between the two on an unusually pleasant winter day.
Our first non-family guests arrive the next day and stay for over a week. The day they leave, friends from Tasmania take their place for 3 nights. We then have a day clear to prepare for a breakfast for friends in the house on Saturday morning, before our next guest, Peter's sister, arrives on Saturday afternoon. And there are two more lots of people scheduled before we reach the end of August. It's all go.