We've Bought a House!
I reckon we must be some of the quickest moving Poms to arrive. In 3 days we have bought one car and one house! We spent the day viewing houses on Thursday and the first one we saw, we loved - we may as well have stopped then as nothing else was going to come close.
The house is actually a bungalow (as most of them are here). It has four beds, two baths, lounge, very large open plan kitchen/dining with built in cooker and dishwasher, two car garage and 1/4 acre section (or garden as we call it). When you buy a house here you also get all the light fittings, blinds, curtains, shelf units, sheds etc. unless you negotiate them out of the deal. Legally the house also has to have a cooker. Assuming our money comes through in time, we ill be moving in on the 21st October.
The children are both enrolled in school and start on the 10th October. the school is large with three huge climbing frame areas and a massive field. It also has a swimming pool and it's own dental clinic. The local bank goes into scholl twice a week so that the children can deposit their pocket money and get used to handling money. It is really strange as there are no fences or gates around the school but the space is respected and not vandalised - what a difference.
Chris is car hunting this morning so no doubt we will be the proud owners of a huge 4x4 by the end of the weekend. More soon!!!
The house is actually a bungalow (as most of them are here). It has four beds, two baths, lounge, very large open plan kitchen/dining with built in cooker and dishwasher, two car garage and 1/4 acre section (or garden as we call it). When you buy a house here you also get all the light fittings, blinds, curtains, shelf units, sheds etc. unless you negotiate them out of the deal. Legally the house also has to have a cooker. Assuming our money comes through in time, we ill be moving in on the 21st October.
The children are both enrolled in school and start on the 10th October. the school is large with three huge climbing frame areas and a massive field. It also has a swimming pool and it's own dental clinic. The local bank goes into scholl twice a week so that the children can deposit their pocket money and get used to handling money. It is really strange as there are no fences or gates around the school but the space is respected and not vandalised - what a difference.
Chris is car hunting this morning so no doubt we will be the proud owners of a huge 4x4 by the end of the weekend. More soon!!!
posted by The Ford Family | 10:34 am
4 Comments:
Sounds like you are settling in then!!!!
Missing you all like mad,
Nicky Noo
Hilary Said
You lucky lot!
You seem to be 'moving' rather rapidly! Not much hope for us lot left in Blighty. Why don't we all emigrate? This country seems to be going downhill rather fast. Where is the Great to Great Briton?
Wish you all luck, especially the children in their school.
Lots of love & luck to you all in your adventure. Miss you already
Mum& Dave
Hello everyone. Finally worked out how to attach a comment so hope it comes out okay. Missing you all already. Hope Alex is getting excited about his birthday - his present is in the mail!
Hurry up and load some photos so that we can see what you are up to.
Heard about Alex's new friend "Bin" - that made us both chuckle.
Love and big hugs to all
Karen & Chris xxx
Purrs for Shannon & Alex from S & S
great uniform - looks like that of Summer Bay!! Once we have our photos developed, you can see the littlest nephew in his school uniform!
It realy sounds like you are enjoying yourselves, despite the pressures of finding somewhere to lodge, somewhere to live, jobs, schooling etc.
Have missed being able to use the internet and have sat down today to catch up with the family news.
Love to you all
J, N, J, & C
Joshua has chosen the boys school as his secondary school and we are soooooooooo pleased and proud of him. Watch put - next year he may be playing rugby, cricket or footie in NZ!!!!
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