One day to go!

Just a day (and a few hours) until we get the keys to our new house. Very excited, although we are starting to worry that we have too much stuff to fit in it! For the last 3 months we have been living with about 40 boxes still left packed as we couldn't put them anywhere here, and the new house is technically smaller...Hmmm.

On the bright side it is a great place and I will have a proper-sized shed with power at last!

It's late here - I am up watching the Tour de France 16th stage live and eating Corrina and Dave's wedding cake. Cheers guys. (Some of the TdF riders look to be eating something similarly calorific but I am 100% sure not as tasty.) Can "our" boy Cadel Evans (yes, he is Australian but there aren't any Brits in with a chance!) move up from 3rd place today?

I've just been over to Sydney again for a couple of days. This time I got to make it to the harbour/bridge/Opera House area for an evening as opposed to staying in the outer suburbs where we always get put up with work. Sadly a career in engineering is never going to get you the prime office locations! Although I still remain horribly biased towards Melbourne as all of us are over here, it was good to see the "nice bits" of Sydney again. It reminded me of coming over here on holiday way back in 2005 and thinking about moving to Australia.

It's been a busy 3 weeks since the last blog entry, finalising things for the house move and playing the proud hosts to Corrina and Dave for the last 4 days of their honeymoon. It was great to see you both. 5 weeks to go now until our next visitors - Stu and Laura will be here from Amsterdam for a few days. Time flies - I can't believe we have been here over 6 months already.

Toni has reduced her work from 4 days to 3 days a week which means she can do more things with Maddie and I hope will meet more Mums and babies in the Williamstown area - she is already into it with a regular playgroup on Wednesdays, so things are looking good.

The weather has been glorious this week - blue blue skies and 17-18 degrees (which might not sound like much but remember it's Winter!). That said you can always get out to some "proper" Winter weather - Corrina Dave and I drove out to Daylesford (1hr 40mins away) and saw snowmen on the side of the road!

Right - back to the Tour now...next blog will be from our new house (er, once we get the broadband up and running again...should be just under 2 weeks' time).

Dom

No new creepy crawlies since last time.

Moving to Williamstown

Well it looks like I've failed to keep updating this regularly, but I will try harder in future I promise!

News at the moment is that we are moving house in just over 3 weeks (28th/29th July). We're both very excited to be going back to home ownership, and also to be making that all-important step to living walking distance from the BEACH.
"Living the dream" indeed!

Here's a slideshow of photos taken in Williamstown, just to give you a flavour.
Stop press - there are actually 5 slideshows. At the risk of boring you all:
Harbourfront 1
Harbourfront 2
Nelson's Place and seafront strip
Beach

(I have to admit we didn't take any of these!)

More on the move as we get closer...

Spiders: still 1
Snakes: 0
Rain: quite a lot! (but mostly at night). Almost as much as at Wimbledon in fact...