At $50 million you can hardly call it a bargain but when a property is reduced by almost 25% of its asking price ($18 million) it has to be a bargain – right? Look at some the features -
2478 hectares of sprawling land
Two Swimming Pools ( where is the slide!!!!)
Two helipads, two pools, tennis court, river, dam and three cottages. Only three?
Artificial insemination room for 300 horses (handy for some) and a private polo ground.
It all sounds incredibly indulgent of things you ‘just cant live without’ but it really let me down with the sauna. I can honestly say from all the homes I have visited and/or redesigned the sauna is the most under used and over rated room of any house.
Impressed? Unimpressed? What room or feature do you think is the most useless addition to a house?
As I write Australia is going through one of the worst flood periods in decades. After decades of drought the flood gates have opened in the Northern Eastern states of this vast land we call Australia.
While over at the bottom of Western Australia we are combating terrible bushfires. Australia is a beautiful but sometimes harsh land to deal with. As a country we are constantly devastated by the natural occurances put before us but the hope and mateship of this great land means that children are even giving away their tooth fairy money to help those who have lost everything. So far the Australian public has donated $29 million dollars and counting, to those who literally only have the shirt on their backs. The loss of homes, livestock and crops is nothing compared to the the lives that are lost in these natural disasters. We will pull through and we will band together and our hearts and donations go out to those going through such terrible devastation. For those who dont understand Australia I think it has neve been said better than 19 year-old Dorethea MeKellar in her poem My Country, 1904.
MY COUNTRY
The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft dim skies I know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon. Green tangle of the brushes, Where lithe lianas coil, And orchids deck the tree-tops And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When sick at heart, around us, We see the cattle die - But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country! Land of the Rainbow Gold, For flood and fire and famine, She pays us back threefold - Over the thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land - All you who have not loved her, You will not understand - Though earth holds many splendours, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly.
We spent a lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday for my daughters birthday at Little Creatures in Fitzroy. The original brewery is in Fremantle, WA, which I have never been to, but the if it is anything like the one in Fitzroy they have a great pub on their hands. The area is vast and open with long tables with stools for casual get togethers and retro styled eating booths on the main floor for smaller groups. The atmosphere is relaxed filled with a chatty vibe but it is the simple, quirky touches that make it such a great place to visit.
Being greeted by the iconic Australian Hills Hoist.
A touch of summer with a row of umbrellas at the back.
Little creatures everywhere
A touch of Toy Story
I hear the gourmet sausages went down a treat.
Oh yes, of course there was the beer.
Relax to tunes of the vinyl variety (with a little cow going for a spin)
I don’t drink beer but my son, husband and it seems a lot of others there can vouch it is a great Aussie brewed beer. You don’t have to drink beer to enjoy the day, it is family friendly (the little creatures got a great play work out with the little kids in our party) and a place we will definitely be visiting again.
I love a flower that demands your attention and nothing is as dramatic as the King Protea. The vase needs to be tall and keep everything with it simple. You could go for more green leaves to make it full but I have gone for white tortured willow for extra height and a little ‘winter’ Christmas magic in the Australian summer.
At $15 for a bunch of 3 and will last at least 2 weeks, I think this is massive value for money.
