Yikes!

I think this old house is telling us it can't cope with us anymore :(
This is the power plug in the laundry. Thankfully I only had the washing machine plugged in to the power board when it started burning and I'm also thankful that the power board had a safety switch that cut off before too much damage was done.

So long carport

Today Trev decided to pull apart my carport.
It really is too small for my mummy wagon but I parked in it anyway.
It doesn't stop it from getting wet or dusty really.
But it was a carport for my mummy wagon, which will have to live out in the elements for a while.

Reclaiming some more back yard.

The kids are getting a trampoline for Christmas but we have an issue with space in the yard now. While walking around trying to work out where to put it, we realised that we have lost quite a lot of yard space from trees growing over from the neighbours yard.
We measured it to be a good 10 foot, so quickly decided that there was no time like the present to cut these plants back and reclaim our yard :)

C Dude is impressed by the big pile of branches. Trev is unimpressed at having to pay more tip fees to be rid of said branches ;)

Bird in the house!

So we've had birds nesting in the roof.
I've been sus about their presence in the roof as there is remnants of old nests up in the eave, but I thought these birds were in the carport. Recently I was proven wrong when the boys started yelling that a bird flew through their bedroom, which they followed, and watched it disappear up into the roof where the old chimney was.
Their babies have been squarking for a couple of weeks now and mummy bird has been carrying on at me when Im at the car. She sits on the gutter, going off at me with a worm in her beak until I'm out of sight.
This morning I was roused by excited squealing that there was another bird in the house. This one had perched itself on the curtain rail in the spare room. Upon investigation, I saw that it was a juvenile, and a very panicky juvenile at that :(
The poor thing flapped about and ended up behind the organ on the floor. I managed to chase it out of there but it got stuck in the curtain in the kids room. I grabbed it with a towel and took it outside where I let it go. That little thing took off like crazy, way up over the roof of the house across the road! So I guess it got the flying thing figured out in a real hurry ;)

Merry Christmas!

The tree has been found among the boxes in the shed and put up. It has pride of place in the area that used to be the fireplaces!
We are missing a box of decorations so made do with what we could find. C Dude added a shovel just because he could!