Surfing that avalanche feeling
I’ve been very quiet in the last couple of months. Mostly because I’ve been trying to work out how to surf this avalanche feeling that has overtaken me since Australia Day. That sensation that someone has pulled the pebble out at the bottom of the pile, and all of a sudden everything is starting to rumble towards you.

My female offspring sent me on what I thought would be a bit of a goose chase. I was fairly sure that I didn’t have the money for it, but somehow we seem to be in a position that we could well be committing property again.

We chose a house, and found a block, and applied for a loan – all in a matter of days. See what I mean about the sensation of avalanche surfing? And then, after all the excitement it stopped. So, being busy at work, and desperately wanting this, I haven’t been very “bloggy” recently. On the principle that if I said a lot about it, the whole idea would just disappear in a miasma of disappointment.

Well, we got the "big file" a couple of weeks ago. The instructions telling us where to go and what is/is not included in the building of this house thing that we are getting involved with. Apparently the deal is, once the finance has been approved, we then get to choose the fiddly bits that go inside (like floor-coverings and tiles) and go to the "Colour Selection Interview".
So we have been talking between the four of us about the colours we prefer and the styles that we feel more comfortable with - and I'm starting to wonder who puts some of these colour selections together! I must admit that I rather liked the 'colour evaluation' game that we were pointed to at www.603010.com - it afforded great family amusement that the two males chose 'water beads' (blues) and the two females chose "forest garden" (greens). But what I want to know, is what they are thinking with the 'sets' that are being offered? They seem to be both dark and somewhat muddy, or heading into leary, almost fluorescence in the combinations that are offered as a starting point.

Very strange ... makes me wonder what it is telling us about our society when the suggestions to those making this huge investment are so... so… television 50s!
As I wander through display houses and look at magazines on interior design it sometimes feels that there is a real desire to make Australia revert to the period of an idealised 50s childhood of the white picket fence and defined roles for men and women.
Yet it wasn't really like that - except on TV, when even the fluorescent colours were safe because the good guys always won ... But they don't today ... So what are these colours saying about where we, as a culture, are going?