We don’t want Cliftoria to be a dovecote.
Not so long ago we had a segment of the top floor plaster and lathe ceiling fall down in the small foyer as it connected to the hallway. It is […]
Flying High at Cliftoria
Today we had a professional drone pilot come and do a fly over Cliftoria. Being so close to the hospital helipad Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) approval is needed for […]
Fungi
This is a random update. Despite all the Covid-19 issues we are quite OK here. Living in rural NSW has its upside although one downside is I’m on a long […]
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, an adventure in restoration 