Yummi Mummi Indeed

What's in the box I hear you ask?

My lunch was, what a terrific discovery on the way back from CR today I made. Yummi Mummi is a little lunch bar in Paragon Arcade and it does a packed lunch box.

I had a delicious chicken, tomato, cheese, lettuce and pesto mayo wholegrain roll with an orange and mango juice and choc-honeycomb cupcake.

Yummo, although I must admit, the cupcake was mostly choc, with just a piece of honeycomb atop honeycomb coloured icing.

Plumbing

So one cannot renovate a kitchen without the help of a plumber and a plumber is not a plumber without a crack.

That gave way to this today which is where the new pipes will go:
So much for the beautiful paint job. And with all these new pipes there's a great need for hot water and hot water will flow steady hot and strong from my new hot water system!

Isn't Rita Rinnai a good lookin lass?!

The Stanley

Great news for one's neighbourhood came on Friday afternoon with news that The Stanley has opened.

A long awaited and much anticipated opening one must say the wait was worth it. A casual small bar where one can relax and unwind after a long day while on route to aflatofonesown.

Great wine list and bar snacks and best of all you can grab a burger from the new(ish) Flipside next door and have it with your drink in the bar!

PLUS, Finally there's a bar in Perth that you can have a proper conversation in!!

Demolition man

Last time you saw the kitchen it looked like this and I was boasting about the new blind that I had put up...

Now it is looking something more like this...

Yes, the demolition began on Saturday morning and we're off and racing towards a new kitchen with power points galore!

Handy Man Part Two

So I have also revolutionised the bathroom today. You may recall the bathroom as looking like this:

And it had a terrible shower head.

After The Handy Man (thats me) hit the bathroom we now have a fantastic, level and evenly hung mirror:

And also a brand new, non-clogged shower head with massage setting:

And let me tell you, it is not that difficult to install a new shower head. Simply turn off the taps, unscrew the old shower head, apply the plumbing tape to the exposed thread and then screw on the new shower head. I am looking forward to my first new shower head shower!!

So if you don't hear from me for a while, you will know what one is doing...

House Warming - #1 and a supremely high point!!

So Benno and Solange came over this evening for some wine and cheese and brought with them this most AMAZING gift:

It is the Onda broom and dust pan by Kashim Rashid who is an uber designer and I had previously lusted after his designs at MoMA.

Now I have one in aflatofonesown.

Kashim advocates that good design should be available to all. I cannot agree more. I plan on allowing many to use the Onda in aflatofonesown.

Handy Man Part One

In the absence of SO I have been a handyman of grand proportions today.

Aside from dealing with unhelpful folk in the tile shops of Osborne Park, I managed to get a new shelf for the shower that fits over the hole left by the previous inhabitants.

BUT I have impressed myself with my handiwork.

I have installed a blind in the kitchen so that the kitchen window is no longer naked like this:

but rather looks spiffy like this: