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See you on the other side...
Jan. 30th, 2014 10:17 pmLast minute packing still happening. The internet will shut off here at midnight, and we're not quite sure when it will be on at the new place (certainly not until we plug in the modem and router somewhere). I'm also pretty much out of mobile data. I am filthy right now from having squirmed right under the bed to fetch things out (the bed is up against the wall, so we can't reach under from each side).
Tomorrow is going to be interesting. I need to get up, empty the fridge and switch it off. Drinks will be going in the laundry sink in a whole heap of ice, and anything else we want to try and keep in a cooler bag in the bathtub.
The removalists will be here at 8am. The kids will be off to school at 8:30am. Then it gets a little hairy. Some time between 11am and 2pm, settlement happens. I thought settlement was some kind of automated event, like an electronic payslip, that ticks over at midnight (or 9am) on the day in question. However, it turns out what actually happens is that your conveyancer goes down to the lands and titles office, gets in a queue and performs all the transactions in person. If I had known this, I might have chosen a different day to move, because we can't actually get the keys to the house until we technically own it. Also sometime between 7am and 6pm the electrickery people will be showing up to switch the electrickery on. Until that happens there will be no air-conditioning at the new house. It will be 40C tomorrow. It's going to be interesting...
Odd things that have turned up while we were sorting through stuff and packing: a Yr 11 report (for me), my student diary from 1994 (second year uni), a letter to Andy announcing the closure of the last place that he worked, a copy of the original Civilisation game, a Lego viking fort we totally forgot we had, any number of nostalgia provoking old letters, photos and cards.
Tomorrow is going to be interesting. I need to get up, empty the fridge and switch it off. Drinks will be going in the laundry sink in a whole heap of ice, and anything else we want to try and keep in a cooler bag in the bathtub.
The removalists will be here at 8am. The kids will be off to school at 8:30am. Then it gets a little hairy. Some time between 11am and 2pm, settlement happens. I thought settlement was some kind of automated event, like an electronic payslip, that ticks over at midnight (or 9am) on the day in question. However, it turns out what actually happens is that your conveyancer goes down to the lands and titles office, gets in a queue and performs all the transactions in person. If I had known this, I might have chosen a different day to move, because we can't actually get the keys to the house until we technically own it. Also sometime between 7am and 6pm the electrickery people will be showing up to switch the electrickery on. Until that happens there will be no air-conditioning at the new house. It will be 40C tomorrow. It's going to be interesting...
Odd things that have turned up while we were sorting through stuff and packing: a Yr 11 report (for me), my student diary from 1994 (second year uni), a letter to Andy announcing the closure of the last place that he worked, a copy of the original Civilisation game, a Lego viking fort we totally forgot we had, any number of nostalgia provoking old letters, photos and cards.
