After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this
Morning all. Cool and Cloudy here in Melbourne.
Back to work today ! 
DEB
Do you want to sell your copy of 1984 when you have finished ?
I think the GF is looking for a paperback version.
Good morning beautiful people.
Bushie, it's looking great. Like bs, I was thinking of a light sage green because of the olive veranda rafters with maybe cream window frames and doors. (We are experts you know!).
22' is very high Amber - how do you change light globes? If you had a fan, it would push the cool air back down if you got an aircon. Enjoy your swim - good weather for it.
Waves to freddie - hope the puffiness is improving and you'll soon be back with us.
Deb, you make me laugh - you are a character.
Hope everyone else is travelling OK.
I still have asthma - thinking of having another blast of cortisone. One of the craft ladies is coming today even though we haven't started back so that will keep me entertained. I have an aircon out in my craft shed so we will be cool.
Enjoy your day - it is going to be a pleasant 28 today.
morning everyone
Bushies, your banksia looks really lovely they way you have trimmed it to frame the veranda
Lurker, I feel like you do, but I really must get some housework done today.... because it's been so hot here, I haven't bothered for a couple of days... now I have to pay for it 
Amber our ceilings are about 13ft. and I can't even do those by myself. We also have a few of those bowls on chains and you really need two people to do it... I am the one that holds the bits when they get passed down.
One of my friends lives in an apartment in the old wool store in Oxford St Collingwood, her apartment is huge, 3 floor mezzanine. I think she has to get someone to come in and change her light globes for her. I must remember to ask her what she does. Her ceiling is so high I can't even remember where and what her lights are 
Sort of brings up the joke : "how many men does it take to change a light globe............... in Amber's place?"
I seem to remember a long pole with a cup shape on the end to hold a globe, but that wouldn't be any good for the swinging chain lights. I can recall a retractable fitting over the dining table in a high ceilinged room. And of course there were the chandeliers on a pulley system that would be lowered to light the candles, clean the crystal, etc. (bit before my time
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Nowadays, a full assembly of scaffolding with safety rails, permits, hard hats, steel capped boots, etc????? May as well remove cobwebs, and repaint the ceiling at the same time a la Sistine Chapel.
DEB
Lurker, Amber, Freddie and Sandypas, hope you are all feeling so much better right now? You've all had a difficult few days, thinking of you all.
It must be awful with the heat over there, hope it cools down considerably. A couple of hot days here as well but still well below what the mainland is suffering.
Our garden is gasping along a little, but we're getting out there twice a day with the watering can so nothing is actually 'expiring'. Strange thing is, we planted some catnip and had forgotten about it, being in an obscure place, but it has thrived and is flowering like a crazed triffid, must be something we didn't need to know ... 
Have a great week everyone, stay as cool and comfortable as you can xx
