*Wiz makes a mental note to start saving for airline tickets.

Best of luck with your.... err...umm....movement.

Yeah, I know.  Apart from shifting once or twice (dozen) in the past, I used to do it for a living.  Thing is, people generally like to pack their own things, so it was mostly pick up and drop off when it was my job.   However, when it's your own move, it's all the packing, the picking up and dropping off, and unpacking... putting everything away AGAIN and getting rid of all the boxes/wrapping paper, etc. 

The good thing about it is that I have a few nephews who will do the heavy work, a sister and a couple of nieces who will help with the clean up here and settle in there, so we're not going to be alone with it.  So that's the next best thing to waking up in the new place and not remembering, I guess.

Actually, we will have a guest room... and a couple of additional sleeping areas, if and when required.

Well yeah, if you ever made it over here you'd be most welcome... same with all our WC friends.

Oh, and thanks for the best of wishes.

We'll see what we can do... pics of here and there... before and after.

Yeah, now that's going to be a shock to the system!  Now that we're going up-market, a cabbage garden might be out of the question, not so much because of the garden itself... more the after effects.  There again, there's an auto shop just down the road... perhaps I could pick myself up a muffler.

Would any amount of warning be adequate? Whoops...wrong game. Sorry.

Congrats on the new place although moving sucks...you always find you have more stuff than you need.

Luck be with ye on yer move to the new home. Sounds like a goodun!!

No, as it happens.... but that's probably got something to do with a mass exodus reducing her property value.

Only if the neighbours have full Hazmat kits in a closet someplace?

I'm not too fussed on moving, either, but this place was too good to refuse

It's very homey in fact.. mightn't be a palace exactly, but it is very livable and a great place to entertain family and friends.

Thanks, CG. Yup, I've already found stuff I haven't seen in a while... and may never need... but if I offload it now, I'll be bound to find a use/need for it later on.  It's always the way, isn't it.

It's probably the best house I will have ever lived in.  I mean, the place we're in is alright, but it is rather compact, to say the least, and I've been feeling somewhat claustrophobic for quite a while now.  As for the entertainment system, yeah, it is a huge score and I'm totally wrapt.  The potential for this thing is fantastic... like it has a computer input as well, so it's not just TV, videos and music, it's PC games also... all on a 12' x 7'6" screen.  We'll be 1/2 an hour or more closer to you as well... just down the Warrego highway, take the Brassall exit and we're in Glenelg Drive.

Yeah, I worked for a Mickey Mouse outfit like that for a while... stuck it out for a few months cos I needed the work/money, but then I was assaulted by somebody I worked with over a pay discrepancy.  Instead of taking it up with the employer, he took out his grievance on me... then the employer stabbed me in the back by giving the mongrel my position while I was in hospital.  I fixed him though... discovered he hadn't paid my tax or super, so I put him in to the ATO and such.  He ended up doing 12 years for tax fraud and superannuation embezzlement.

Needless to say, that's one less Mickey Mouse outfit, but sadly there's still too many of them out there... which is why I'll do my own removal, with the help of my nephews.  I know then that the job will be done properly, and with care..

I think you deserve some real comfort and some nifty pluses, old friend. I'm genuinely happy for you and Shaunna....hope you find some real joy there.

Oh yes...I like a king sized bed in that 'guest'/retirement room you've got planned for me. A nice view and a prawn on the barbie wouldn't hurt either.... 

LOL @ Syd's moving van!

Oh yeah, I'm excited orright.  Like I mentioned before, I've been feeling a bit claustrophobic here... and even better, the new place will be much cooler in Summer, warmer in Winter for us, so we're likely to spend less on cooling and/or heating.  Our current house is in a gully and set on a concrete slab, so it retains the heat too much during Summer (particularly in my study area) and is colder in Winter. 

The new place takes better advantage of summer breezes, being high set and on a hill, and that suits me just fine because I don't cope at all well with high temperatures.  In fact, I'd rather it remained at a maximum of 20C all year. Anyway, the lower level is quite cool in Summer, even without air-con, so that's where the study and main entertainment area will be. However, air-con is available throughout the upper level, so our more formal entertaining and dining will be more comfortable if temps soar.  Oh yeah, there's a kitchenette downstairs as well, so we can make tea, coffee and cook less formal meals down there... saves having to trapse upstairs if we're doing stuff below.

Thanks for those nice thoughts, Doc, they're much appreciated.

Um, the place is bigger orright... but king-sized beds are not an option.  The bedrooms are not huge, like.  The master bedroom has room for a queen-sized bed plus regular bedroom suite and the 2 regular bedrooms have room for a single bed and standard bedroom furniture.  Oh, no need for closets... those are built in.

A nice view we can accommodate!  There's a beauty from the back deck... a natural one of the bush and mountains off in the distance.

As for the prawn on the barbie... sure can do.  In fact, this place is set up perfectly for outdoor entertaining, so BBQ's will be a regular feature at our place... and maybe... hopefully, we'll see more of Kitty and Wulfie now that we're going to be even closer/more conveniently placed in relation to them.

Hey Dave, and thanks.   Yup, the internet will be up and running the day we move in.  I'm just relocating with our current ISP, so I'll set it up with them to commence there the day we actually take up residence officially to save too much down time.  It may mean it's off here for a few days, but that's not so bad because we'll be spending less time here by then anyway. Though our lease there starts August 18, we will pretty much be up there full time during the previous week setting everything up.

That's the only moving van we could chip in for. Better send you computer stuff UPS.

And if somebody else can chip in for the back half... uh, we might be in business.

Hmmm, and if any arrives broken Ill BE UPS (Utterly Pissed Sender)

Yeah, I was thinking that.  I mean, now that we're a bit more up-market, we can't afford to be associated with toilet humour or potty mouths.  I just don't want the neighbours talking... thinking we're uncouth because they've heard something.  I'm even going to cut down my curried cabbage intake significantly... to ensure they don't hear anything, at least from that department, anyway.

My niece did warn us about the neighbour on the downside, however.   Apparently he'd be on the doorstep at 7.am with a case of beer most days if we let him.  When she and her hubby first moved there it was a regular thing as soon as she stepped out to go to work... until she put her foot down, that is.  Yeah she came home early one day to find that hubby and this other bloke had polished of 3 cases of beer and were passed out in the lounge-room with empties and rubbish piled up all around them.  That won't be a concern for us, however.  I'll quickly give him a polite "bugger off" if he thinks I'll come into that caper.  Besides, I'll only have a shandy or two now and then, and Shaunna doesn't drink except on special occasions (weddings and the like).

The people on the up side of us are elderly and my niece says that they are great neighbours.. like keeping an eye on the place, collecting the mail and putting out the bins if we happen to be away.  Yeah, stuff like that.   The old bloke hasn't been too well and can't mow his lawns anymore, so I offered to pop over and do them for him when I do ours... it'd only take me 20 mins or so, so why the heck not, me thinks.

Good luck!

yeah didn't ya see me  naked in that  water ? damm now everyone will know I go skinny dipping  hmmmmmmmm