Elli Moody: seaside

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Thursday, 11 July 2013

Winter Beach

I think I like our beach best in the winter - bigger waves, emptier sand, we usually have it to ourselves apart from the surfers.

Molly the beach dog!

Friday, 24 May 2013

Surf's Up!

We drive to school along the beach road each morning - yep, we're living the dream ;)

And the waves were HUGE this morning.

All the car parks were full of utes and 4x4s, surfboards on roofracks - poor Mark was at work so Molly and I went to check out the waves for him!

They reminded me of my favourite Guinness ad (1999)

which was inspired by this painting -

Our waves weren't quite that impressive but still pretty good!

Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Like a lot of people - especially those who grew up in the dead centre of the UK - I always wanted to live by the sea...
And now I do - unexpectedly it's not the Bristol Channel but the Indian Ocean.

I love it - you can see the sea from the end of our road, and from our roof (so Mark tells me - I haven't been up there..)

Molly and I have got back into our morning walk on the beach routine - every morning the sun's shining, the waves are crashing...and we're the only people on the beach. (Well, only person and dog!)

The first thing my parents said when I took them to the beach was 'Where are all the people??' I thought it was odd to begin with too, but now I realise that the sun does shine 99.9% of the time, the beach is always there and I too could start to take it for granted.

But I'm determined not to - even in the middle of the so-called Winter (still sceptical about that one..) I will go to the beach everyday - whether Molly wants to or not!

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly House..

I picked up the key (singular) to our house this morning!

(And two nice congratulatory bottles of Margaret River wine from our Estate Agent)

Think I'm going to need the wine as the first thing I did on getting the key was to drive to Bunnings and buy a box full of cleaning stuff and bug killer... I then drove to our new house and set off three Mortein bombs (to kill the bugs...) and then ran...

I'll go back tomorrow to sweep up the little corpses..

Since I couldn't go back in the house for two hours, and it was an hour before school pick up, I drove around our new neighbourhood taking photos of my favourite houses (and looking very suspicious cruising slowly down the streets taking photos out of the car window..)

It's a funny suburb, an equal mix of the original 60's fibro beach shacks, and the million dollar mansions that are slowly replacing them.

Here are some of my favourites:

This one is a little Art Deco gem, and probably the oldest house around - isn't it gorgeous?

Sea views too.

This is one of my favourite fibros, just for the jaunty way it's positioned on a corner block:

Mid-70's I'm thinking? There are lots of these A-frame houses around here - it didn't really take off as a house design though, did it?

This one is just pretty - look at that lovely fretwork - and a nice Wedgwood blue too:

I like the room randomly stuck on top of this one:

And, if I ever get depressed about the immensity of our renovation, I can always pop around the corner and look at this beauty...

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Guilt trip...

Well, I felt a bit guilty for being so happy after dropping the boys off at school yesterday....

So I baked them some cookies...

Put them in my new ebay found ice cream tin...

And took them for a swim at the beach on the way home from school...

And I think we might do the same again today!

Monday, 4 February 2013

It's oh sooo quiet!

It's very quiet round here...
Why's that? Because I dropped my little treasures off at their (new) new school this morning!
Hooray!!

(I love them really!) (But honestly, soooo quiet now.....)

We went down South for the day yesterday - by 8.30am we were in the sea, it was gorgeous.
I have serious sun umbrella envy - we need one, preferably a stripey one...

I've been running round town for the last two hours doing last minute house-buying jobs (bank transfers, boring paperwork etc) so we should hopefully have our house by Friday.

Here's a sneak peek at the outside - this is the best side by the way! It gets much, much worse..

Can't wait to get started!