Update and Fix a window
Well it has been a while since my last post. The summer was dreadful with fires filling the air with smoke well above safe levels. Our house is not very […]
Evicting the squatters
Over the last couple of weeks, we found long twigs on the floor of the back balcony and inside the adjoining sun room. Eventually it clicked that a couple of […]
Cliftoria is over 150 years old!!
Last weekend I attended a talk at the local library about the “Local Studies Photo Collection”, which is part of the Family History Month events. I discovered that while there […]
Surprise leak.
There has been a water pipe near a corner of the studio that I have been concerned about since the first time I saw it. The pipe is an iron […]
Fireplace of wind.
It is full on winter now with the other night reaching -7.3C. Being below -6C the water pipes froze and unfroze about 10:30am. Fortunately I had a supply of water […]
Knock, knock, knocking on Cliftoria’s Door
Recently I discovered the button for the doorbell lying on the mat as I left Cliftoria. Someone (or maybe the wind) had knocked it off its mount and broken the […]
Autumn at Cliftoria
This is a quick post to show some of the colours in the garden. I’ve been trying to kill this vine but it keeps coming back. It looks best at […]
Cliftoria in 1928
I have discovered a picture of Cliftoria in an early magazine. The magazine was called The Home and was published quarterly. This picture was in the edition of 01st May […]
See through a window, darkly.
The western front sash window has been very badly damaged. The top light has been badly broken with some of the frame and mullions and the bottom three panes of […]
Cliftoria as a Hospital
Original part of Goulburn Hospital “Erected A.D. 1887.” I have just discovered that the centenary of Cliftoria becoming a private hospital was only four years ago. Cliftoria was a hospital […]
