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 […]
Making the studio useable
The studio has been filled with many boxes and lots of stuff that was moved in those last frantic days of the big move here. Much of it was unloaded […]
