As I checked the mailbox when getting home tonight, I noticed a lovely purple Arum-like flower growing just near: 
After picking it, I noticed that it was rather smelly. In fact, it smells like a dead sheep, or something like that!
When we sanded the floor of the front (non-main) bedroom, a water mark appeared on the floor, near the front wall of the house. As far as I can tell, the water has come through the damaged timbers surrounding the asbestos sheeting under the windows. Some pieces of the timber, and the quad that is ’trim’ had rotted away - either because the vine that was there had allowed the water to remain there, or because the paint had cracked. 
I pulled some parts off, and then found that the main bottom timber had been repaired at least once before. Since removing the whole beam was out of the question, I just patched it up again…but it isn’t quite finished yet. So now, our house has sheets of plastic across the front, just incase it rains tonight. 
Jaq spent a bit of time this weekend (while I was at the Greenhill Road Touch Fields) emptying out the planter boxes on the front porch, sealing the post that supports the roof, and then we filled the gaps with concrete. Then, we planted some plants! A heap of Snake Plants (Sansevieria trifasciata)__, and a couple of Agave (Agave attenuata). They were all plants we had from the old house, and they look great.
Ahh, the joys of being able to shower again. The vanities, and all of the fixtures went in on Saturday. We also got most of the flooring down, except for the section where the boards need to be a little longer after we remove part of the wall. 
Man, the nail gun was cool. It actually uses an explosion to force the punch forward, which pushes the nail to the desired depth. The size of the nails is small - you almost don’t notice them.
The first gun we got from Bunnings was broken - it didn’t reset the punch far enough back, so the next nail couldn’t be primed, ready to fire. After a few hours, we got a replacement, and a $20 voucher. And our money back, so we basically got paid to use the nail gun.
Wow. A month since I first posted about our new house. And the bathroom isn’t yet done. Hopefully we’ll finish the shower tonight, and then I’ll actually be able to have my morning shower tomorrow. I cannot cope without it. This weekend we’re planning to lay floorboards in the kitchen/study. At the moment it is bare joists, with dirt underneath. The boards are being delivered tomorrow morning.
Ray has been tiling the bathroom the last couple of days. It’s starting to look good. Here’s a before and after: 
I’ve spent my time sanding walls, and then re-plastering, then sanding. The areas below the front bedroom windows have been heaps of work, but they are starting to look great. And then tonight, Andy started to paint the ceilings - undercoat/primer first, of course. Since we have to move in on Wednesday, we are going to be busy painting over the next couple of days, and I have to go back to work on Monday. And I’m not sure when we’ll get around to polishing the floors.
I’m renovating my house at the moment, and I’m going to run some cable to various places. Unfortunately, I can’t do as much as possible, as the box gutter in the middle of the house precludes access to the northern roof space. Still, I will run cable to as much as possible - since I need to replace some floorboards, a fair chunk of it will be under the floor, including some floor mounted power points, cat5, and maybe some a/v cables.
One of the things Jaq liked most about our new house was this light: 
Unfortunately, it got broken on Friday afternoon. So, if anyone knows where we can get a replacement glass piece in Australia (prefer Adelaide), please let me know…
No time to write. Gotta sleep. Here are pics of house today. 
School Holidays begin again. Of course, I’ll be too busy renovating to do any relaxing! We had the concrete poured for the underpinning, and the mini skip delivered. 
Made some good progress this afternoon, though. Got rid of a heap of the vine out the front. 
Found two things in there: a bird’s nest, and a dead lizard. 
And tonight, I found a big hole behind one of the taps.