Category: Photo Post

Hooray! We are down to just one working fridge. 😅

Did you know Sydney has a cherry blossom festival? We went out to the @auburnbotanicgardens today to see the blossoms, eat chicken katsu sandos from @kenchancurry.au, and watch @hellokitty sing karaoke. 🌸🎋🇯🇵🇦🇺 #cherryblossomfestival

Progress update: The AC grills are on in the living room and bedroom! (Living room one needs the gaps at the sides filled, which will happen later.) Less attractive is the open trench alongside our house. Poor guy did it by hand so far and pulled out a lot of construction rubble. (Our neighbourhood is ex-industrial so it’s all backfill.) #renovation

Six months after the renovation kicked off, Phase 2* (Remedial Plumbing) has begun! Our building’s aging drains need work, and as the lucky ones on the end, we get to watch as plumbers dig a massive trench right outside our walls for new pipes. Will Kristy fall into the pit? Will a massive sink hole open up and devour Chippendale? Only time will tell! 👷‍♀️🚧

* Phase 1 (Interior) is still ongoing as bits and pieces arrive. Our exterior HVAC is on hold until the plumbing remediation is done, as is Phase 3 (Landscaping).

Is it even a renovation if you don’t paint something yourself? I decided to take advantage of the fridge being dead to paint the alcove where the new one will go. (It had unpainted render and old yellowish paint back there.) Primer yesterday, and now first coat today. 😅

No internet and no TV? Might as well go to the Medieval Festival! We had mead and watched reenactors fighting. Oh, and I did a lot of judging of costumes. (Goth elves? Not medieval. Hobbits? Also not medieval. Captain Jack Sparrow? GET OUT.) 🏰👸⚔️

After several hours of dealing with end-of-lease cleaners, we rewarded ourselves with a quick dinner at @8.52newtown. BBQ Pork rice, dumplings, plus prawn toast and garlic veggies that were so good I forgot to photograph. 🥟🍚😍

Nerds Night Out at the @australianmuseum! We joined scientists, journalists, educators, and volunteers to celebrate the great work done by the Museum and @botanicsydney. As one of the scientists said, it’s been fantastic to see Australia’s Olympians returning home today after their remarkable success. Our collective goal should also be to ensure Australia’s scientific success is similarly acknowledged and celebrated globally. 🇦🇺🤓

The actual highlight of my week: Remember my beloved sunglasses (“Asian fit” Ray-Bans that actually fit my giant head) that got stolen by the CRIMINAL in Tennessee last year? And then Rodd went to great effort to get me another pair in Japan, but I somehow lost them? On Sunday I saw they were now 50% off and ordered myself a third pair. 😎❤️ (And this better be my last pair, as I think the style is being discontinued…) @rayban

And we’re back! Did you miss us, Chippendale?? (We’re never moving again, I hope.)