Well, we’re in our new home, although far from being organised as yet.  Last Saturday ended up being really crazy and not like the planned day I thought it was going to be.  It started off with the removalists turning up over an hour early and me making a mad scramble to find cats who went into hiding. They were already freaked out by all the growing boxes in almost every room and were stressed. And then I was trying to shove them into cages they didn’t want to be in and then in the car.  Why was I doing that to them?

One started crying straight away, another about 10 mins later and the third about 30 mins into the trip. Thank goodness it was only about 45 mins to where I was going with 3 crying cats and a car full of boxes to be unloaded.

Poor Graham didn’t get to be at our home till the other end of the day after he’d oversighted the loading of 3 trucks (yes, 3!) full of our stuff (and the old house is still not fully empty), had his precious bikes loaded into a mate’s van and our son-in-law transferred all our electrical equipment (computers, amplifiers, ham radios, etc) in two carloads.

Our eldest, Melanie, was dropped off by her husband on his way through to help Graham early in the morning and she helped me unpack and put away as the boxes started coming in.

The kitchen and pantry were the first to be fully finished, the bedroom is nearly there and our office is halfway set up.

Our internet connection did not happen as it should have, despite being ordered a month ago and now we have a war between our ISP and the main Telco as to whose responsibility it is to run a drop wire from the pole outside to our house so we can have an internet connection.  Not happy Jan!

So I had to source a wireless broadband USB connection and am using that as a temporary measure at the moment. Being offline and away from my internet based business for 5 days was more than enough for me – I needed to be in touch with what was happening and contact clients who were probably wondering where I was.

Will have pics for you sometime soon – I hope!