The move went fairly well. The only difficulty was getting access to the Internet… lots of promises and not a great deal of action!
Still – all the services are now connected, the boxes have been unpacked and picked up, and everything is in ‘a place’ even if it is not the place in which it will finally live.
Various tradesmen have been called in to give quotes on the changes we want – most notably a few more doors, more sockets and more lights. So now we can now relax – a bit!
I’ll probably be seeking help a bit down the track on gardening matters – but just at the moment I’m well pleased with being able to sit on the patio (or the terrace as Bearsy calls it!) and look at the bit of garden that we don’t have to do anything with.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Well done! I can’t see the little Joey in the trees but he must be there somewhere!
Time for a drop of house-warming, methinks!
I have opened up a bottle of NZ Makutu Bay (Sauvignon Blanc) going cheap at Sainsburys. Cheers to you both!
Good on ya, Boadicea and the Bear!
I gather from the statement, a few more doors, that Australia is beset by the same disease as America, everything open plan?
God how I hate open plan!!!
Dogs, smells and sounds all where they ought not to be!
Considering the bloody price of property you would think that they could afford to put in a few bits of wood as doors wouldn’t you?
May the force be with you!
It is indeed, Christina. The latest fad is to have open-plan en-suites. I really have no wish to lie in bed and look at a bathroom! The estate agent was quite horrified when I said that the first thing we would do would be to close off the main en-suite.
It’s not only doors that are lacking – but huge chunks of walls…
Hope you will be happy in your new home.
How curious, one of the houses we have our eye on is exactly the same, the ensuite bathroom completely open to the bedroom. I cannot imagine anything more horrific than watching one’s spouse doing ‘its’ bit in full view of the bed. Put one off for life!!!!!
We instantly mentally priced up a wall to cover the horror and mentally knocked it off the asking price, hope you did the same!
Really one begins to wonder why they give any bloody walls at all, why not a few posts and a lid?
Might as well live in a teepee or the bloody barn. It is all cheap construction to maximise the profits of the builders. Most of the purchasers live like pigs anyway and really do not seem to care.
Oh for some decent carpentry. I weep for the house I have sold in Wales, when I had it remodelled I had it fitted with beautiful oak architraves and doors.
I think at the price I sold it I shall put a curse on it!
Totters off muttering and cursing.
A house we looked at some years ago was advertised as having a dining room. I asked the agent showing us around where it was. He pointed to a square bit of carpet in the corner of the family room and said that that was the ‘dining room’. He wasn’t too impressed when I told him ‘Rubbish! A room has four walls, a floor, a ceiling and a door. It isn’t a space marked out on the floor.’ I think I rather embarrass Bearsy when I start talking to estate agents!
The doors we put in the last house cost an arm and a leg. Yet despite what estate agents and builders say about ‘beautiful, flowing open-plan layout’, it was the doors that sold the property so quickly.
Exactly so! Anything of real quality and cost will stand out positively phoenix like amongst the dross on offer!
People get what they deserve. I’m so tired of the “I didn’t like to” brigade and the “Don’t make a fuss or a complaint” cohorts. Look where it has brought us –
A bunch of bloody serfs, paying the bills and pulling the forelocks to their ‘betters’ and leave the Zil lanes empty! AARGH!
Anyone with an ounce of self respect would stand up for themselves and organise others to revolt and use their own roads!
I’m very glad to hear that you make copious complaint, so do I. Actually spousal unit is vastly amused by it but then he is a New Yorker, ah well! There has to be someone left somewhere who is able to discriminate sufficiently to tell a few fortunes as to quality and correctness.
Well done.
G’day Boadicea. I hope you and Bearsy will be very happy in your new home. Don’t suppose I could interest you in an Ethel to inhabit that dark glade?
Christina. It is positively uplifting to see you in such magnificent ‘rant’ mode today.
OZ
Oz, spent the afternoon ‘dead heading’ the borders. Tremendous fun executing all the parasites, arse lickers and general snout troughers of those damned ‘games’! Off with their heads!
I’m seriously miffed, they have gerrymandered out boundaries for Congress and we are being offered in the primaries three, yes 3, ex Microsoft employees. Wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire!!!!!
Fortunately one lone Iraq war veteran is standing. I shall insist spousal unit votes for him even if he is a knuckle dragger.
Serious GRRRR!
What a fun day! Nothing like a good rant to get the blood flowing. (Preferably theirs!)
May their blood flow, Christina. I’m off to the deeper recesses of The Cave.
Nighty night.
OZ
Night Oz.
Excellent. Hope everything is well.
Pretty damn good, I would say, and I hope you will be happy in your new home, and it sounds as though you are very well organised.
I hope you don’t have to add too many doors, but I can’t stand this open plan business either.
The garden looks lovely, Boadicea. I could gaze at that all day. All happiness to you in your new home. 🙂
PS I adore open plan, but draw the line, absolutely, at en-suite! Shudder!