Vireya's Blog

The weather bureau is predicting that we won't get any decent rain for another 6 weeks, which is a bit depressing as everything is so dr...

In a couple of hours at a sit and sew today I got this quilt basted: Carolina Chain, designed by Bonnie Hunter. It has been a top since l...

First of seven days of fires to completely dry out the oven and all the coats of render before the final finishing touches can be added.

The base of the pizza oven now has a coat of render: It's getting closer to completion every day. And so is this: Forty weeks of...

This morning a small bird breakfasted on salvia nectar: It is an eastern spinebill, ( Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris ). I think it is a fem...

This happened this morning: It's the beginning of a shed for all the tractor bits. I wasn't very complimentary about it. The word...

Nothing much has been happening around here - but here is a lovely gladdie stem I brought inside to save from the hot wind: Here is the ...

The pizza oven is now wrapped in a couple of layers of ceramic fibre blanket, held in place with chicken wire: There will be render over ...

My pink belladonna lilies ( Amaryllis belladonna ) are starting to flower: These came from the old garden in the city. Last year we bough...

This is inside the pizza oven: It is a car jack holding up a disk covering the hole in the top, so that when that hole is filled with con...

These pre-cast pieces become the body of the pizza oven: They've been sitting outside for a couple of weeks, waiting for today. How...

The first bit of concrete for the pizza oven base: Smoothing it off an hour and forty minutes later:

Preparation for the concrete slab the oven will sit on.

Block-work: Noisy petrol-driven cement mixer borrowed from neighbour: Mixes everything up very quickly: Still a bit of manual ha...

I've finally finished quilting the mystery quilt, and it is binding time. I can never remember how wide I should cut the binding, but af...