Less than 3 weeks to go!

Things have really gone into high gear this week with lots of time spent on the phone endeavouring to contact various utility companies, etc. to cancel accounts. Very frustrating! But gradually the things are getting ticked off the "to do" list. Lots of sorting out, throwing out and cleaning happening - as well as more goodbye drinks & dinners. We are so lucky to have such great people around us. Did I say it already? I'll miss you!

As a tangible sign that something is happening, our bedroom is lined with open suitcases in various stages of packing. Now it's starting to feel very real.

Brian is off at golf this morning - likely his last game at Shelly Beach Golf Club - that's something else we will miss. We went over this week for dinner and raffle night - which we like to do occasionally and, if we are lucky, might come home with a tray of meat for the BBQ. Not so this week. We did however take with us the lovely English Angela and her very cute son Sam. Angela and her husband are buying our Toyota Rav. They have just arrived in Australia and as Kevin was away, we thought it might be nice for Angela to see a bit more of the area. Lovely night experiencing what it might be like to be grandparents of a 3 year old! We have much to learn.

We've had a visit from the new owner of our house, Gary, to learn about operating the pool, spa, and all of the other little secrets that houses have - such as "what does that switch turn on?". There are still two we have never figured out - maybe he will have more luck!

What else? Well, we've spent a lot of time on the internet looking at houses - criticising the very expensive ones of course as not being worthy and how could they possibly charge so much for THAT! It's going to be an interesting exercise. What do you think about this one?  It's high on the list but we are going to have to do some hard work to get the price down from $1.9m to around $400k! Pretty nice huh?

Well, a person can dream can't they?