First kiwi Home - Blogabond

We left the Big Red House on Barbadoes St on a sunny morning early in March with 2 more bags than we arrived with! We were at a loss to expalin the extra "stuff" acquired in only one month and doesn't bode well for when we leave and may need a container at that point!
However as I write this people in Purcells cove have lost their homes and the H1N1 virus is stalking the world so i have little to complain about. Our 1/3 of a 3 port gagage is a relatively new bed sit. it is ~ 12x18 with a small bath across one end. Simple and basic but meets our needs.

Colin bought and attached the bedframe as it was only 4 in off the floor initially and though we are fitter than when we arrived it was still achallenge to rise from the bed.

Housework takes very little time and as you know this can only be a good thing for me!

We are next to a forecourt off the street and the path to the main house is through the woods and over the bridge.

The house is small and 100 years old and slowly being restored. Lovely leaded window in the door. Large Rosemary tree to one side and a lovely planting of lavendar in front.

The front door opens in to a central hall with a bath at the end (no toilet here)

The 2 rooms on the right of the hall are private for the owners but have back to back fireplaces. On the room at front on the left is rented to Julia who is here from Ohio to do a Phd. the backroom on the left is the sitting room where we connected to the internet til we had our own connection.

Through an open door way to the small kitcen across the back

Lots of wee little rooms at the back. One of which is mud/laundry ( dryer vents into the room through the door hence +++ steam if used) off that room is a step down to the sink and then toilet through another door. Seperate toilets from bathrooms are very common here. Actually if you say you are going to the washroom peole look at you strangely. it is the toilet or loo.

Through the door on right you go out to the backyard, one side ordinary,

the other has a greenhouse, chicken coop and clothesline (yeah!!!)

Behind the chicken coop toward the front of the yard is ashed and in front of that a patio about to become. Landlady had dug a pond and bought fish but the fish are housed in an old bathtub beyond the clothesline for now with a hose constantly running into it.

We are a 5 minute walk from 3 bus routes and although there is asmall commercial area around us it is surprisingly quiet on our deadend street.

Recycling has taken off in abig way and they have just revamped their waste system to 3 wheelie bins per household. A small green one for organics picked up weekly, a larger red one for rubbish and a big yellow one for recycling. The red and yellow are picked up bi-weekly alternately.