[m i a o w] the cat

I am so out of the loop and very unused to spending such long amounts of time away from my computer! I’m missing my fast-as-lightning work connection already! When we got up the morning after we had arrived, Queensland had decided to impress us with it’s weather. It was so balmy - even in the early morning. Coming from Melbourne I expect the horrible frosty chill when venturing outside and I didn’t get it - it was sunny and about 22 degrees celcius. Very nice. We went to the aqaurium that M’s sister (J) and brother in law (R) run and we drank coffee on their deck that looks out over the sand to Fraser Island.
First morning in the sunshine state

After a while I couldn’t sit still and be polite anymore as I wanted to grab the keys and go and look at my house! Well, I did and I didn’t. Anyway, we set off (putting on the GPS to see exactly how far away from town we were going to be) and ten minutes later we were at the top of our new street; this is what I saw…

First view of my new street
Seeing the house for the first time was quite bizarre. All I’d had to go on were the pictures of it online and the map that J had sent me. Everything seemed a little out of kilter. I was pretty horrified by how much crap had been left inside - I’d been warned about outside, but inside was pretty revolting. Then I went out the back. OMG. There is a pond about three metres from the back door. I started screaming, in Shakespeare fashion, ‘Out, out, out! Damned pond’ or something similar, but have since been convinced that with some serious landscaping, all will be well (plus the addition of fish to eat the mosquitos that I suspect are hanging out to chomp on me).

Needed a drink. The next day R and his mate turned up with a ute and a trailer and proceeded to rid the property of all the crap that had been left here by the previous, hideous, tenants. So gross. Old stoves, fridge, mattress, couch, rabbit hutches, sheets, and god knows what else. It took about three trips to the tip, and as they took care of all the outside stuff, I ridded the inside of every single thing, and felt much better. I think the house has great potential.