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How good does it feel to have broadband at home and available for my every whim again? Ah, hurrah!
And indeed, how good does it feel to have a home!?
We have been here since last Friday and while we rattle rather a bit due to lack of furniture, totally unable to fill the place, it is still starting to feel like home.
Moving in was a catalogue of traumas (not getting keys until 2pm, Andy starting work at 4pm, the rentals company trying to give us a smaller truck than we'd booked that wouldn't fit the bed, the new fridge freezer falling over in the back of said truck almost killing our mountain bikes...) but when it came down to it, everything actually worked out fine. Which seems to be the way things are going for us here. Every once in a while (like every couple of hours...) something has come along that makes us panic and think "this is it! The point at which everything goes wrong/we lose everything/get deported/end up penniless for the rest of our days stuck in an airport lounge, endlessly being transfered from one country to another..." or something like that... And then it all works out! Normally a long way before the deported fears kick in! And so it was with the house moving day. I did spend a little while in tears in a big warehouse type shop (cunningly called The Warehouse) but actually, everything was fine.
Today I started work. Which was a bit of a surprise. I'm not going to say too much about it today as I'd like to leave it another day to see if they can work out why they employed me!
So other than moving house, we have been continuing this whole settling in thing. And one big part of that has been our mountain bikes. Ahem. Yeah, right! We are making use of them but so far, have only achieved one vaguely proper bike ride. We have not become sudden amazing, invincible people with overly-toned legs, no indeed! But on our one proper bike ride, we did come across something bizarre that I wanted to share with y'all. As we were cycling up the Hutt River, we saw a car coming towards us really slowly, coming to a standstill every once in a while. As we got closer, we realised a dog was running along side the car. The reason for the car's pauses was whenever the dog found something interesting to sniffle. It wasn't a little old lady who wouldn't be able to exercise her dog any other way but a young healthy looking woman. Random we thought but ok. Until we saw four more people doing this! They would lean over, slowing to a crawl, open the passenger door and out would jump a dog. Or two! And the owner would slam the door and crawl along behind them...does anyone else think this a little strange?! I mean, it wasn't raining! The wind wasn't even too bad for the Hutt! The sun was shining and the river was looking beautiful! Why would you not get out and walk?!
I'm clearly not a kiwi yet...
xxx
3 comments:
So glad it's feeling like home already.
One little cry on moving day doesn't sound too bad! I think it's mandatory isn't it? Is for me anyway.
Oh we got your emails and pics. It's so perfect. I told Andy as soon as we saw them that I wanted to move there. *sigh*
Look at the cute pink bricks. All that grass. The hills!! We imagined kicking a football or a bit of cricket on your huge driveway!
You'll have to tell us what each of the rooms are.
Andy spent ages looking at your place on google earth.
Incoherent babbling sorry. Andy sent you a skype hello thing. Although we're not around for a week or so.
Love you.
Snoo! :( You made me sniffle!
Simon said (when I told him you have a house) "what?! this all sounds very much like they're going to stay there! That wasn't at all the agreement!" I asked what he wanted Jen and Andy to live in and he realised that he'd misunderstood me and you haven't actually bought the house! Silly boy (but obviously silly boy with very strong feelings about the fact that you should come home! He he)!
The pictures do indeed all look perfect perfect :) Can I come and play cricket too and can you get Simon a job please? (I can't remember exactly what you're doing but it's related to his specialist area so I think anything would be ok! ;) x
hello snoo - haven't had the skype hello thing yet but suspect that is due to my lack of knowledge of how to work skype! Will try it with parents in the next week or so and should get it working!!
I know, I love the pink bricks! Though I saw it before Andy and he was a little concerned when I told him it was slightly pink...
We'll email you a list of rooms!
Hope you have a lovely holiday week, sure you shall. xxxx
What ho Welshy - yes, we shall all play games (though maybe not cricket on the drive - the landlord is a bit of a fusspot and it wouldn't be worth the "yes, we broke a window having fun..." bit!!! cricket in the park...frisbee on the drive?!) and I will do my best to find a job for Simon! Mwah Mwah!
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