Monthly Archives: December 2018
The Glenbrook House 27 – Finale
This should be the last one in the saga of building the new house, because it is finished and we have moved in. It is the end of 2018, so this is a good reason also. We started the design part in December 2015 (having bought the previous house here back in 2010!), demolished the old house in November and December of 2016, and have been building ever since. We still don’t have a proper telephone connection, we haven’t “settled” the sale of our house in Mount Riverview quite yet, but all else is pretty well done.
We have just had our first Christmas in Glenbrook.
Here are a couple of pictures of our Christmas lights.
It has been a beautiful Christmas season here in NSW, and a good time to portray the new house at its best:
We appreciate how lucky we are.
The Glenbrook House 26 – Birdlife
The new house is a bit like living in an English country village – the sandstone, currently the long(isn) evenings spent sitting outside, even blackbirds singing in the background (feral imports, of course). It is really lovely at the moment, the temperatures are not too hot and the days relatively long of course here in the Southern Hemisphere.
One thing the English Countryside doesn’t have is bower birds.
There are lots of other birds – Rosellas, King Parrots, Rainbow Lorikeets, etc, but the bower birds have been very amusing: this one is seen on our tomato plant.
They must have developed a taste for the exotic – after all, tomatoes are not a natural food for bower birds.
This is a young one or a female – the males are a beautiful satin black.
I had been a little concerned that I would miss the birdlife from our old house, but the new are is just as well provided with birds for us to look at.