Another Goodbye over and done with!

We've just gotten back from a great weekend in London. First time there! Thought we'd better do it before we go to Oz! We met up with friends of ours and saw all the sites of London (good god our feet were killing us!). Danielle coped really well though bless her. It was strange seeing all the things that we normally only see on the telly actually in the flesh so to speak. The great thing too was that my mate had a PC so I didnt have to ween myself off Ebay too much! ha ha. Lots of food, lots of wine, lots or shopping (great charity shops!) and a good laugh - what more can you ask for? The next time we see them will hopefully be in Oz when they come and visit us!

Just got back from mums

I've been staying at my mums for a few days this week. She was in hospital last week having an operation so I went to keep an eye on her. Thankfully things seemed to go well for her and shes on the road to recovery now. Danielle came with me too as its half term and she had a great time. She got to go on Lels thoroughbred horse so you can imagine how much she enjoyed it! We were looking after my mums dog while she was in hospital and it seems strange now that hes gone back. The cats have also officially moved across to our neighbours too so we are officially a pet free zone!

We're off to London for the weekend tomorrow to visit friends. Should be a good laugh. Lots of site seeing, shopping and drinking - YAY!

Let the leaving parties commence!

I had my first leaving party on Friday night. I met up with all my old school mates (some of them I hadn't seen for about 18 years!). We went to see a queen tribute band and had such a good laugh. Dont really remember much about the band because we were just laughing so much amongst ourselves - it was as though the last 18 years had disappeared and we were right back to our school days (and mentality!). I haven't laughed so much in a long long time. Brilliant! Now bring on the next one!

Medical Records - what a rip off!

I spoke to the doctors surgery today about getting hold of our medical records to take with us. We have to pay for a photo copy of them to be done. For Gray & Dan its £15 each but for me (because I'm some bloody medical phenomenon!) its £40! I tell you what it doesn't pay to go to the docs too often does it! ha ha

The garage is looking pretty clear now as loads of furniture was collected at the weekend. We're trying to establish now whether or not we're able to take our table and chairs with us because the seats are wicker (a big no no apparently because they may be fumigated and cost us a fortune!!!!). I'll be quite happy to go and buy a new set in Oz though if push came to shove!! ha ha.

The Letters have gone out!

Yesterday I spent most of the day on the PC sorting out letters to send to companies to let them know about the big move. I've posted them this morning - so thats it - its all official!! I'm hoping that with some of the companies (TV Licence etc) we get a rebate - a couple of cheques in the post certainly wouldn't go amiss right now!

Today I think I might hit Danielles room (again!). It seems to be no matter how many times I sort it out it still fills up with more rubbish! Shes been quite good at getting rid of things (selling them on Ebay!) because I've told her whatever money we get for them she can have to buy herself new ones in Australia - she defo likes that idea!

I'm off to do some house hunting online now! I've seen one that we really like but theres no way of knowing what its really like until we see it in the flesh so to speak! Only time will tell!

All our furniture is disappearing!

Selling has been going well on Ebay. The only trouble is that we've still got 7 weeks left and hardly any furniture! Oh well at least it means we'll have less to sort out when it gets closer to the time to leave. My car is going on Ebay next week - it'll be walking to school whatever the weather then. I'm sure the exercise won't do me any harm though!

Update on Rental!

The Estate Agent only came around two days ago and we got a phone call today saying that they've found someone who wants to rent it without even seeing it! Its a family moving down from Cheshire - and they want it for a minimum of 2 years - fantastic.

I'm off to get a bottle of wine and a chinese now. Gray is out for the night in Cardiff so its a night in with Dan for me!

Busy Busy Busy!

8 weeks today until we fly! 6 weeks tomorrow until Danielle finishes school! Its all happening!

The last two weeks I've been flat out selling as much as we can on Ebay - its gone quite well too! We're not taking too much across with us - they've got an Ikea in Sydney so we figured we might as well sell what we've got now and buy new in Oz (cos I love shopping!!). This way we don't have to wait around for beds etc to be delivered - apparently it can take up to 12 weeks before you get your hands on the stuff - nightmare!

So anyway the house is looking more and more bare. The garage is only half full now and the attic is completely empty!

I'm going to try and keep this up to date now (remembering is the difficulty!) - especially when we get out there so that everyone can see how we're getting on and also so that we can post a few pics.

Danielle is looking forward to the move more and more as the days go on. Shes looking forward to feeding kangaroos and koalas which is sweet. Not sure she appreciates the fact that we've gotta get a car, and a home before we can do anything though! It'll be good fun though and a nice new start which I think is definitely what we need.

We had another Estate Agent come around yesterday and they're going to start advertising it next week and are hoping to achieve £550 per month which is good.

Right bed time for me!

Night night!