guess what ? our landlords emailed us yesterday to say they wanted to sell the house we’re currently living in. they emailed us directly to give us first refusal so we’re very quickly trying to become experts on how new zealand mortgages etc work to understand our options. i’ll save you the details, but it looks doable (without having to sell our UK house) if the price is sensible.
we’re getting an independent valuer to come round next week, and we’ll also get a check to see if the house is ‘leaky’ because it was built at the time and in in a style which has caused problems. There’s a good explanation of what went wrong with building in New Zealand in the 1990s here
kezia has had swimming squad, esther has had piles of homework and jane spent a day on a course learning about
by the way, here’s a good video from weatherwatch explaining how new zealand ended up getting affected by the tsunami and how the effects actually reached their peak some 30-40 hours after the first waves arrived !