Wednesday 15 January 2014

Home Sweet Home { Mum's House }

Well, a days worth of flying. It finds me on the opposite end of our very vast country. And in an entirely different world. Mild weather. Lush green. Flowers. Civilisation. Home.

Nothing quite compares to your family home. Regardless of where you move to. Nothing changes. You return to the same bed that you always slept in. This time with a sleeping toddler in a portacot beside you. And a second daughter in your sisters room next door. Not much different at all really.

My daughters, are experiencing a bout of sickness. Norovirus. There has been plenty of vomiting going on here. Mum has caught the bug, and is also unwell. I'm still waiting for it to catch me. I think it's only a matter of time. I've been quite in the thick of things.

In the meantime, while my daughters sleep off all of their exhaustion. A chance to take a quick walk through Mum's garden. A house, and a garden, that is truly worthy of it's own blog. Inside and out. Certainly more than my company home that is our current residence.

Not just our family home. But our family house. Built by my Great Great Grandparents when they first arrived to Tasmania from Australia. It is a home, special to us in many ways. One we are privileged to still be able to call our own. Even if it is, as all federation homes can be, bigger than you need them to be, with more garden than you necessarily have time to care for, in need of constant maintenance, and impossible to keep warm inside. 

But the charm, and history of this house still outweighs everything for now. I love coming home to here. It is a slice of our family history that we are lucky to have back in the family. That I was privileged to have grown up in. I love looking at trees, and bushes, and knowing that my ancestors first planted that. This place holds so many memories, not just for myself and my siblings. But also for my Grandfather, who spent his childhood here, visiting his Grandparents. Not many people, get the chance to revisit whenever they please, pieces of their past like that.

So a tour of Mum's garden. It is the kind of garden, full of all sorts of different nooks and crannies. Where visiting grand-daughters, and their imaginations, can quite easily turn it into a fairy garden in their own little minds.

Mum asked me to not take photos of the weeds, but in a garden like this, weeds are aplenty. Even if you're in the garden most weekends. So excuse the weeds please!!










The arbour where my husband and I were married. 







My Great Great Grandmother standing in front of the house circa 1925.
The house was built in 1908.

11 comments:

  1. Wow, so very beautiful. I want to come over for a cuppa. Hope the girls are ok and the bugs stay away from you. xo

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    1. Me too, somebody still needs to be able to play nurse here!

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  2. Oh WOW!! The house is SO beautiful and the garden is SO beautiful!! What a wonderful place to live, so much history and so much beauty. I hope that the house stays in your family for many many more generations to come as you obviously love it so much. I hope that the ickies are gone very soon and that you can all kick back and relax and enjoy being at home together. xx Oh, and tell your Mum, I didn't see a single weed!! xx

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    1. Fingers crossed, but I think we are finally past the worst of it now. Time to hopefully enjoy our holiday now!!!

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  3. happy new 2014 carla!
    i cannot see any weeds, only a lush green gracious home and garden. how wonderful. my first thought was: your mum is getting more rain up there than we are, so crispy and beige down here on hobart's eastern shore.
    it's a pity your girls are unwell and can't play in that lovely garden. i hope they improve soon.
    enjoy your time home... i'm off to catch up on your posts. i want to see how you fared the tropical storms over the kilbara - i thought of you when i heard them on the radio news.

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    1. I think there has been quite a bit of rain. But the weather is divine at the moment. We can hopefully start enjoying our holiday and the mild weather from tomorrow!!

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  4. What a fantastic garden - thanks for sharing your family home. It is fantastic that you have that picture of your grandmother in front of the house. Hope your girls feel better so they can enjoy playing in the huge garden. And interesting that we have some of the same plants - purple wisteria, correct?

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    1. Thank you. Yes it is a purple wisteria. They are one of my favourite plants, the colour is gorgeous xx

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  5. Now that is a family home! I wish we could do something like that for our boy, find a true family home for him to grow up in.

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  6. What a beaut spot, lovely to have a grandy with a place like that to holiday at! Hope it gets to stay within the family. My dream home. Think I've just had norovirus too and the only place I've been in days is the supermarket, yuck!

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