Keeping cool and sumo wrestling.

This house sit has a lovely pool. It has to be hot for me to get into the water, but it is now mid summer hot enough for me and the pool water is warm. Of course, its oooohhh and ahhhh to start off with, but once in, it is lovely.

This house sit is in a cul-de-sac, and the back yard backs onto 3 or 4 other homes. They all have pools. This home is well fenced so you can’t see anyone else, the privacy is good.

Most homes in Australia have a very good outside area. Because the weather is so hot, outside living is part of the daily routine, with an outside dining area, paved, with a barbeque somewhere on hand.  At this house sit we are enjoying eating outside most of the time, and of course the pool.

Our previous house sit on the Gold Coast had a good pool too, but this one is a little smaller, easy to care for, but has some palm trees in flower and the little flowers drop off into the water. Even so, keeping it clean is not a problem.

 

A nice size pool...you can see the palms at the end that drop the flowers.

 

A typical outside area for an Australian home. Pool fencing
regulations are very strict here, toddlers especially are at risk
of drowning, and even with good fencing this still happens sometimes.

 

Outside table and chairs. These chairs are actually very comfortable to sit on.

There is one thing that this house sit has that I have never seen before. It is a Wertheim vacuum cleaner. It works well, but has a cleaning head the size of an elephant….well not quite, but you can see from this picture that it is almost the size of the little table with a pot plant on, and it is so so heavy! It must weigh several kilograms. Like an old ad on television in New Zealand for the Toshiba vacuum cleaners, it has a ‘very sucky  motor’, so it is very efficient at cleaning, but by the time you have finished the floors you feel like you have done battle with a sumo wrestler.

The head of the vacuum cleaner is really big and heavy.

Wertheim vacuum cleaner.