James and Keely Down Under: We've moved in

We’ve moved into our new house! Mostly anyway.

Our new furniture was delivered late yesterday afternoon. Everything was fine apart from the oven – we were told it would only need plugging in – no wiring. But when it arrived it needed wiring. It was too late in the day to call anyone – especially the day before Easter weekend. Luckily, the builder (Eddie) was still at the house finishing off the fence. He volunteered to connect up the oven for us. He connected the cable to the oven but it didn’t turn on. He then discovered the oven socket hadn’t actually been connected. Eddie connected the socket but the oven still didn’t work! Next he checked the fuse board and found that the oven fuse had never been connected. At this point Eddie decided to call his brother who is an actual electrician! Dave arrived and connected the fuse in minutes and the oven worked J By then it was too late to cook though so we had take-away!

So last night we slept in our new house. Our furniture is somewhat minimalist at the moment but we’re managing. We’re using our new dining table as our desk until we get something built in the office. We only have four plates and dishes so we have to wash up quite frequently. We’ve bought the basics we need until our stuff arrives from the UK next month.

This morning we sorted out the kitchen – putting what little stuff we do have in the appropriate cupboards. We’ve never taken our clothes out of our suitcases since we’ve been here so we will have to do that at some point.

We then went back to the rental house to clean and tidy up. We gave the key back to Julie and Graham and said goodbye – although they said they’ll probably drop by tomorrow to take some grapes.

We’re going to clean the dining room this afternoon – there are some paint splashes that need removing and we’re cleaning every room thoroughly before we put any furniture in. We might not do too much else today – maybe watch a film later as we have a 50” TV again now J