Please don't worry if you haven't heard from us for a while but we have no landline telephone so no internet access, no emailing, no calling people and only one Aussie mobile, which Harvey has nabbed so he can text his mates! As soon as we are hooked up, there will be calls for all.
Happy Birthday Mike! Tonight we are off to the local pizzeria for a birthday meal with Mike, Bec, Nicole and Ed. Madeleine is having a little snooze before we go.
After staying at Ed and Nicole’s for a couple of days, yesterday we arrived at our home for the next 3 month. It is idyllic. The house is on a 2 acre plot, built into the slope and the owner Jamie is a landscape gardener so the gardens are lovely. Very different to the UK as there is no lawn just lots of bushes, shrubs, features, bamboo, paths, rocks and pebbles.
On the ground floor, there is a huge veranda sweeping all around the house with the most wonderful views across a valley over to Kondalilla National Park. There is wicker furniture and a huge gas bbq which we are going to try out this weekend. There is a fully equipped kitchen with a gas range fridge freezer, lots of work surface, a small pantry and even a jar of vegemite! The main living and dining area with wood burner, settee and chairs, a tv and CD player. The beds were all made up so we unloaded our stuff, had tea and then crashed out about 8pm.
Today we had to do some essential organising such as a phone line, sim cards for the phones. My phone works, but the rest need to be unlocked so we can use Aussie sims. We went to the bank to smile at them and show them our passports. We filled in forms for schools and bought some bed side lamps from a charity shop.
We are nearly recovered from our trip, though the tiredness hits at really strange times such as half way through filling out a form and you wonder what you were writing, or halfway through a sentence. Or is that just me getting on a bit!!
Hopefully the phone line will be working in the next 24 hours and broadband by early next week. We will then be able to email, talk and download and send pictures and will then sort out Skype and Harvey’s X-Box.
Alex is going to start his new job tomorrow and so we did a dry run drive to Landsborough Station earlier this morning. It takes 20 minutes and was quite easy.
I am sitting with my laptop on my knee on the veranda with the birds and cicadas chirping away. Think this is the way to live. We have possums scattering about on the roof, tree frogs croaking at night so it sounds like a machine humming and rainbow lorikeets flying around at dusk and sawn. The natural peace is only broken by Harvey shouting at the PS2 inside.
Off to shower, put on my face and wrap a present before we go to meet the birthday boy.
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