we bought a house

well, it all happened.  we bought a house.  everything happened very smoothly – at 9.30 the bank phoned to say they’d set up all our loans and sent the moment to the solicitor and at 10.30 i got a call from the assistant solicitor saying all was good and we were now the owners of a nice shiny new house (currently with people in it for one more day)

my day consisted of a 2 hour meeting which i was chairing and a 4 hour video conference (which i wasn’t chairing thankfully) and a few other meetings in between, so was rather hectic.  meanwhile jane welcomed the packing people who were two people who looked about 12 according to jane!  they worked 8 until 3pm and one of them is coming back tomorrow to finish off.

jane had coffee with her chum alex and generally felt like she was a spare part

this evening we ate beans and toast off the floor (well, off plates which were on a flattened packing box on the floor).  they’d packed the tin opener though unfortunately so esther and i drove round to debbie and warren’s so we could borrow theirs’.  they chuckled at our choice of beans: ‘heinz beans, english recipe’

i’m typing on the last operating computer in the house, and i fear i need to disconnect this one in a minute.  The ipad will be our life support for a few more hours.  I’ll preload tomorrow’s family blog post in case we don’t have t’internet.  Hopefully we’ll be back online saturday afternoon NZ-time in our new house.

see yas