October

Late 2014 we decided that keeping the house in Katoomba is not really a good idea since our daughter and family had moved away from the Blue Mountains to the Mid-North Coast. Their property on the outskirts of Bellingen had a large toolshed which could be transformed into a little house on its own. So we sold the place in the Blue Mountains and invested into changing the shed into a granny flat. Within 4 months our daughter had transformed that dump into a most comfortable little home for us. 

Now we lived again in 2 places, in ahold suburb of Sydney, close to the  city and over 500km further north at the outskirt of a small rural country tow . We stayed a few months here and a few month there. When Covid became a big problem in 2020 we decided to live in Bellingen permanently.The Balmain flat was empty and sometime some grandchildren live there.

It was a great challenge and joy to establish a new garden, turning a building site into an oasis.

 September

Since 1992 we own a little flat in Balmain and after more than 12 years having had tenants in it, it needed serious renovations. We worked on it hard with some help from a friend. And the longer we were there the more we loved the place. The view over the harbour and the city was fantastic, ever changing. So it did not take long that we decided that we wanted to live there. The flat was very small, just one bedroom and only a kitchenette off the living room. But how about living in 2 places, in the cottage in Katoomba and the flat im Balmain. That way we were close to the children with families in Sydney and also could be with the youngest grandchildren, the twin in the mountains. The ideal solution for over 10 years. 

 August

The little cottage in Katoomba and the small flat in Balmain we owned became vacant in 2004. Both needed urgently some renovation. So we stared working in 2 rundown places. After a long hard working day we returned back late  just to sleep in our beautiful big place. Soon we had enough of this mad back and fro and decided to sell Mt. Hay and live in the smaller place in Katoomba. This was even closer, in walking distance to our daughter with the youngest grandchildren, the two year old twins. There was a big garden too and many parrots visited.

The two of us lived there till 2014, often only part-time.  

Our daughter painted the old concrete fence