Our New Place!

The house from the backyard...

Despite initial concerns, the move went rather well! Thank you again to Lawry for providing car space for the day. After a quick flurry of activity we finished with about half an hour to spare before the removalists came. Then to our surprise the truck they bought for the move was far too big (we could have literally parked our car in the empty space of the truck and hitched a ride to the new place!).

We’ve been settling in nicely and have enjoyed the new surrounds. Here are some of the (relatively) interesting tid bits we’ve been learning about the new place:

• We had known for a while that the Gateway Toll was very close to our backyard – the noise was a concern. That said it has been rather ok during the day and relatively quiet during the evening. Every so often some guy on the loudspeaker pipes up about something but we can never tell what he’s saying. And I haven’t heard any major car crashes, as I suspected, as yet. But there are some hoons late at night who love to rev their engines as they leave the tolls.
• There is a nice cool breeze which usually comes through the house during the day. My theory is that because we’re so close to the toll way and because there’s quite a bit of heavy traffic through that area, the increased temperatures due to road surface and traffic has created a small weather system in the immediate area. I have no proof whatsoever to back that up, but it sounded pretty smart when I first shared it with Steph!
• We were visited by a friendly bearded lizard we dubbed ‘George’. Despite his fearsome appearance in the photo we got along great.
• I’ve noticed that most of the taps have been fitted with water saving devices, which is really good because I tend to crank open the taps too much during use
• Despite the initial ‘ok’ on the iinet website, we can not get ADSL2+ here because we live on an ‘outer rim’ where Telstra has not installed the ADSL2+ cables yet, which gives further proof that Telstra is not nice.

Our housewarming will be sometime in the new year since we have no time before the end of the year to plan it!

'George'

Our 'million' dollar backyard views...