The Smith's Journey

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Home owners again

We are now in possession of our new house, although we haven't got the keys yet. The money has been given over. Its actually quite bizarre, we discovered that the owners live in the house next door. We met them last night for our last inspection. Terry doesn't think anything of it but I feel a bit weird about it.
We are hoping to have take-aways there tonight with the girls, thats if we get the keys on time!
We have a bit of work to do, Terry's going to lay some carpet in one of the bedrooms and the laundry is desperate for an update. The old concrete tub has a crack in it and we think its been leaking for a very long time by the looks of the mould growing!
We have 10 days to be out of our rental so it makes it easier to shift. I'm going to be able to clean up the house a bit, the tenants consisted of a 30yr male, a teenage male and a very skinny teenage female. Not the tidiest people.
The house we've bought is straight across the river and 3 houses down. We live on the corner of Sidey Quay and Cridland st East and our new house is 31 Cridland St West. The girls can still walk to school and get there faster than it would be to drive and we are still close to the Cam river to feed the ducks. My main concern is our 2 cats. We'll have to keep them inside for a while and even then they'll probably return here.
I've packed a few more boxes too and will be able to unpack as we go so it won't be too overwhelming. The house has a heat pump in the lounge and a dishwasher. A huge yard, the section is 1012m.
I definately want to get a new clothesline, a cat door, a freezer and I think thats all for now. Not too much to ask.

Terry played soccer on saturday, unfortunately for him he didn't make it too half time. The girls and I were watching, I was chatting with Jo when we saw someone fall down. I didn't make too much of it until I saw it was Terry and he wasn't getting up. Now I know that its not 'cool' for a mother or a wife to rush out on the field to see what had happened. I said to Jo "Should I go out there and see what's happend, no I probably shouldn't" He didn't get up so I ran onto the field, well I walked very fast, He had rolled his ankle and people heard a crack, its the same ankle that he'd sprained a few weeks ago. The guys carried him off and we tried to work out whether he'd broken anything. Meanwhile Terry's laying there in agony. His Physiotherapist was watching the game so he came over and suggested we get it x-rayed. So into the after hours we went, 4hrs later we got home. 2hrs waiting to see the nurse, 30min waiting for an x-ray, and then an hour before we saw the doctor. There were a lot of other injured sports people there, most of them went through to the doctor then came out with a cast on. We were very happy to see that Terry sprained his ankle rather than breaking it. Later on the soccer team passed on a message through Steve that they'd be able to help us shift if we needed them. Which we don't, we have enough helpers.
Well that's all for now. Terry's home for 10min then off to physio so better go and greet him.

2 Comments:

  • At 11:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi
    Can you remember how many times you have shifted Lyds???? We are thinking of you but would like some photos. Hope it's not too wet there for you to move. We have been blessed with some showers and a few mls in the dams. Still warm.
    Enjoy your move
    xxx Mum & Dad

     
  • At 10:09 AM, Blogger ray said…

    Yes, would love to see some photos. I am very excited for you guys. How are the girls handling it?

    Ray

     

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