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rejuvenating our garden for summer (and my favourite hardy, affordable plants). nearly finished! our house’s cladding makeover (and reader questions). miss nerd’s birth story: a short labour, but an epic novel. my ‘babymoon’ at townhouse margaret river – and my must-do things down south. how a freezer club can make you more organised (and a giveaway!) ahh – summer. i am going to be honest, i’m not a summer person. in my past life i probably was the wicked witch of the west who melted to death. her rage was an accurate representation of my snippy mood when it gets to 40 degrees in perth. give me cold weather and miserable skies any day (which actually make me feel cheerful) – i am a winter person through and through. what i do like about summer in perth is all the entertaining; the dinner parties; the barbecues. people seem more relaxed and more willing to get out and about and make the most of the beautiful evening weather. i have been so looking forward to entertaining here this summer, because as you guys know we recently wrapped up our scyon cladding makeover which has made our house look so much nicer – and after many years of dreaming about doing this project, we also got a new patio and deck in our back garden. the deck has completely changed our house and the way we live here. it is like having a huge extra room. but it also doesn’t make us feel restricted to staying inside the house, the way we used to feel when it was either very hot or when it was raining. it has been so lovely i kind of wish we had prioritised doing it earlier, because i had underestimated how much it would change the house. we’ve been out here almost every single day since the decking was finished (thank you tjp carpentry whether to cut back the trumpet vine hedge around the dragon tree – as you can see, i did it and we love it! the chairs are the saffron one-seaters from early settler and the side table is the cooper. it’s been really nice – and with the cladding and decking done,