Entering the hallway, we turn to the right looking down the passageway to the bedrooms and so on.

The first door to the right leads into the computer room, also called the ironing, sewing and clothes-drying room.

Before that, for decades it was the two boys' bedroom, with a double-bunk. Now they've done the bunk, and when Leanne does a bunk we'll have another room, for the computer, I hope!

This old bedroom has that "lived-in" look, with an old, but good, ironing table, a Singer sewing machine Glenyce bought before were married, and an old wooden clothes horse. It might be rickety, but it does a good job.

An electronic keyboard is stacked against the wall - I have two - this one was in my mother's nursing home room until she died. I used to play to her every week for years until she died last year at age 101. She still knew when I made mistakes, but said nothing, bless her heart!

The other half of the room has my computer, as you see. This was bought by my daughter in 1998, but I have upgraded the memory and hard disk storage. I have used it since late 2000, and it runs at 300MHz, so is a bit slow.

I have 160MB RAM, 120GB hard disk, Windows XP Home, running on Bigpond ADSL at 1500kbps, with 20GB limit, which I'll never reach. I run about 850MB per month, which costs me about $100. I host my website in the USA, via a Qld firm, crikeyhosting.com, whom I recommend.

I enjoy working at the computer late at night with the room light off, and just that desk lamp at the left and the screen, with the radio on ABC Radio National, ABC Newsradio, or ABC Classical FM. I am a night owl, as you can gather.

I do spend a lot of time in here.

I also waste a lot of time in recreational surfing.

I actually have assembled a rather large collection of Favorites folders, with hundreds of links on all sorts of topics.

Some of the time I feel a little guilty about the time spent in here.



But most of the time I manage to ignore that, and just enjoy myself!

This is the main bedroom. I like it in here, and must confess that two of our three children were conceived in here!

I sleep on the right, and Glenyce on the left.

Before we had the house painted last December, we had a framed picture above us, but we didn't like it very much and have resisted putting something back again until we find something suitable.

As you see, a door leads from this bedroom to the garage. Glenyce is not happy with this, but when we added the garage, the design of the house is such that this was the only practicable design.

The garage is 20ft x 30ft, and has mainly family junk, but I do have an old Triton work bench.

Glenyce and I both have bedside lamps and books. I always have about 5 or 6 books that I read in parallel - or try to!

I also have a clock radio, set to Radio National (621 AM), and a portable radio set to ABC Newsradio (1026 AM). I usually get to bed after 11pm, and then listen to the BBC on the portable as I try to get to sleep. Glenyce is an early sleeper, and is used to the radio.

The black box on the floor near my bed is an air pump for a CPAP mask that I wear for sleeping. Last year I did some sleep lab tests showing substantial sleep apnoea, and this helps a great deal. It cost about $1300!

The view from my side of the bed.

We bought this dresser many years ago, and it has a nice big mirror. There is a full-length mirror inside one of the inbuilt wardrobe doors.

And so we leave the garage and bedroom back into the passgeway, where we turn right.

This is Leanne's bedroom.

She likes big, colourful pillows, and is an avid reader.

Potential burglars please note that, again, there is nothing worth stealing!

Move along, folks, there is nothing to see here...!

Go along and turn to the right to the bathroom.

Here it is!

Somehow we managed to raise a family of three with only one bathroom! How did we do that? Timing and cooperation, I think.

The bath is rarely used now, but especially when we look after our two grand-daughters, who are 5 and 6. They love their bath, which is administered by Leanne and Glenyce.

I stay right away!

Well, here's a new toilet bowl we got last December. The surface on the one from 1967 was starting to break down and was hard to keep clean. It was also a good time to do that, because the vinyl flooring was renewed.

I am a well-trained male who has never had any problem remembering to keep the lid down! It's good hygiene and also looks better.

The laundry is a busy place. We have a top-loading Fischer and Paykel washing machine and a Hoover tumble dryer.

There is a pleasing outlook into the back garden.

The trees are an old Japanese maple and a holly tree. The former has been trimmed by our neighbour in rather an ugly fashion.

The possums used to defecate onto his car from the overhanging branches, so he had a point!

The laundry, seen from outside.

I built the shelves some years ago, and they make very handy storage for all sorts of things. The laundry sink and cupboard is the original from 1967. It's a bit rusty, but not bad.

And so we turn again into the backyard, where we started.

On behalf of Glenyce and myself, we thank you for sharing this tour of our house, and hope you have been enlightened and entertained.

We trust that you realise now that there is very little worth stealing here, as we live a comfortable but relatively frugal existence!

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Goodbye!