Hey dude.. new job almost been in it for a year.. going great.. its definitely easier on the body since I dont have to take work home with me.. House is good. Cant remember what I posted up last time.. But I have cut down almost all the bigger trees in the yard.. Cleared nearly 400m2 of garden beds.. Got an application underway to build a new shed at the bottom of the block, going for 12.0m x 7.5m with 3.3m to the eaves. Aiming to build a granny flat in one end of it. Existing 6mx6m shed will be removed and hopefully that area (nice and flat) will be turned into a pool/outdoor entertaining area. Once the granny flat is done my plan is to live in that while knocking over some big renos on the house. My application to council to go up another story was rejected, then I also got knocked back on a relaxation of the boundary clearance requirements. So since I am on a corner block, but the house is positioned like a diamond (not parallel faces to boundaries) so the north and eastern points are at minimum offset to boundary, I have NFI what I am going to do with it. Did contemplate knocking the whole I <3 Bananasing lot down and starting again.. Thinking of extending it off the south western face but stepping the structure down, split level kinda thing to follow the lay of the land. However the western aspect is very exposed and gets damn hot in summer.