Glenbrook House 20 – the garden shed, etc.

Have I ‘blogged about the garden shed?

47 Park St 8th March 10 smallI think that I have, but not in it’s final form, as shown here.  This is such a small structure, that it didn’t require planning permission.

After all, it’s just a garden shed.

4m by 3m, sandstone, gable-roofed, slate-tiled, garden shed.

We don’t do things by halves, it seems.

It will be used to house the garden tools, at one end, and the pool pump and filter at the other.

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Other developments are the flooring downstairs and the carpet upstairs.

This shows the downstairs living room, with the ironbark floor after polishing, and below is a picture of the kitchen, also with the wooden floor now in place.

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In many respect though the most important addition is the granite slab at the entrance of the house.

It is made of “Orinoco” granite, with the amazing copper/gold swirls which naturally occur in this stone.  The picture shows it looking down from the upstairs balcony down to the front door.                     47 Park St 30th March 2018 Orinoco granite47 Park St 19th March Hallway carpet small

 

The carpet has been laid upstairs as well.  This makes it all look close to complete, and I suppose it is – at least the end is in sight!

Bruny Island

Ten days ago Sue and I were on Bruny Island.  This is a relatively small (relative to Tasmania, itself small relative to Australia) off the coast of tasmania, south of Hobart.  Two of our friends are spending the summer in Tasmania – as they have done for the last few years – and we went to stay in a house on Bruny Island with them for a long weekend.

It’s a two-hour flight to Hobart, but that’s the sort of thing we Aussies will do for a weekend away.  Some mainland families have even begun to buy “weekenders” in Hobart for use on a regular basis.  This is much to the annoyance of locals, as it puts the prices up, of no real benefit to anyone the non-owners say of course.

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Anyway, back to our weekend.  The island is beautiful, and large enough to have its own cheese-making farm, winery and oyster farm.  So, together with Andrea and David’s supplies of wonderful Tasmanian wine, we had a really good time.

 

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We spent time looking at the wonderful coastline, including the lighthouse shown above, and the cliffs overlooking the Southern Pacific.

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The lighthouse was particularly good, although we were too late in the day to climb to the top, we did get a good look inside, which was spectacular even from the ground floor.

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It’s now out of use, of course, replaced by a deeply unimpressive small structure a little to the west of the original tower.

 

 

 

 

Tasmania appears to be full of such gems, and really is a very beautiful state.  Well worth the trip.