End of financial year

Tomorrow marks the end of the financial year here in Australia. I shall spend some time today, tomorrow and Monday doing a proper stocktake. I’ve never actually done a proper one before (I’ve only ever estimated), so it will be a boring but useful thing to do!

For those of you who are financial-type people, I hope you have a lovely time seeing the new year in! 🙂

In other news, we’ve been doing some work on the house this week, which is why I haven’t had much to say here. My husband’s school has already started school holidays (the girls finish the school term today), so we took the opportunity to get some much needed work on the house done. We’re removing the paint from the brickwork on the front of our house.

The previous owners painted the front of the house many years ago. On speaking with their daughter the other day she said “I don’t know why Dad ever did that.” No, we don’t either, and I wish he hadn’t!

My husband removed some of the paint from some of the bricks some months back. It has had a huge effect, finally allowing the brickwork to dry out for the first time in years! We’re hoping that taking the rest of it off will allow more of the house to properly breathe!