We've had a busy day today spending 8 hrs out and about and walking about 8 miles looking at places to rent. Unfortunately for us (but not for the bush firefighters) it chose today to rain...all day! Our viewing was not exactly an unqualified success:
out of 5 places, 1 was a no-show from the agent, 1 the agent couldn't get into, 1 was on the top floor with no lift, and the other 2 weren't really for us.
They do things differently here: the property is open for viewing at a set time (normally a 15 or 30-minute window) and everyone has to turn up then. Mostly there were around 15-20 people looking but one place today had a queue to get into with over 50 people shuffling through inside! It looks a little like finding a place might be more difficult than we thought, but we still have a lot of places to look at and we have the advantage of not being at work during the week.
Speaking of work, I (Dom) have a meeting with a recruitment consultant on Monday, he was very positive on the phone so we'll see how that goes.
Maddie has (fingers tightly crossed!) set her body clock to Oz time and in fact had her best night's sleep ever last night. She is asleep now (Mum and Dad unwinding with glass of wine) so we're hoping for more of the same tonight.
What else have we been up to? Well, Maddie went swimming on Thursday, her first time ever in an outdoor pool. She has some rather fetching new dayglo swimwear which she is modelling in the photo! She is also mid-clap which is one of her newer skills and currently her favourite thing (although it is in danger of being supplanted by chewing her foot...).
She loved swimming as much as she did back in London, so we will definitely be going again (possibly tomorrow morning, although not if it rains like today...still raining as I type this!).
Right, better sign off now as we need to do some more websearching for somewhere to live!
Spider count: 0
Snake count: 0
Sharks: allegedly a great white spotted off Philip Island (eek!)
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