Well we think we have really built ourselves a 'yuppy holiday shack' - at least that's what the place is looking like with wetsuits and boards everywhere. Slightly removed from the straggling tin shells I spent several of my childhood holidays in at Lancelin and Garden island (before the navy stole it from the common folk and made it their own private retreat, sound familiar?) 
The kitchen is working really well, the orange is great and even the poodles fit in well with the decor. Getting Hamish to use the doggy door when he doesn't consider himself to be a dog was problematic though.Life has become a round of work for 3 days, long drives to Albany for me (bike-rides to work for Robin), then 4 days of surfing, mainly stand-up paddle boarding down the inlet to the small break, some study and even a bit of art work for me.
The studio is great, the light is wonderful and walking past my work often gets me excited enough to do lots of looking and more work. I really have to live with my art to do it, having it in a separate space for the last 5 years or more has been hell.
I have even finally got out my underwater camera which I have had in a box for about a year, so will now try and get some shots of the surfing experience.
