"Home"

After a long and hard week of work, we were pooped. So instead of packing up and travelling somewhere ... which we love to do so we (and you, through our website) can see more of Australia ... we decided to stay home, relax and go to the beach.

Now you get to see what we call home here in Australia.

Our house, after we ...

... cut the grass (we hadn't cut it since we arrived a month ago because we don't have a lawnmower ... luckily our parish priest offered his to us). While I was cutting the grass, Gillian was ...

... photographing a little visitor to our front porch.

The back of our house ... as you can see, they don't use screens here, so bugs can come in as they please when we have the windows open (which was necessary until the nights started getting cooler in the last week or so).

Our tropical backyard ... yes, that's a palm tree, and there is also a lemon tree and frangipani trees, whose blooms ...

... look like this and are incredibly fragrant.

Now for the inside ... our dining room ... which was empty until a few weeks ago when we took a trip to Ikea to get some much-needed furniture.

Gillian hard at work in our kitchen (which is where most of the bugs seem to appear, unfortunately). We make good use of plastic storage containers.

David hard at work standing in our kitchen ... the sun makes for beautiful light in our house, to the delight of Gillian and her camera.

Our all-purpose room used for ironing, clothes-drying and storing our colleagues' surfboards.

To get this shot, Gillian burst into the bathroom while I was showering ... or is my surprised expression not convincing enough?

Our bedroom ... with the morning sunlight streaming in (for those like Gillian who noticed she's wearing a different outfit than in other pictures, this was taken on a different day).

And our living room ... the coffee table is actually an end table donated from someone's bulk garbage pile at the side of the road ... nice and simple.

We didn't take a picture of our spare bedroom, but it's empty, just waiting for visitors. We miss having family and friends over to our house, so we hope to see you soon.