Will believe it when it actually happens... but we have handover of the house booked in for 7am tomorrow morning.

STAY TUNED!

Ben meeting his cat Stanley

No house... but we've got a cat!

Will we ever get the house... who knows.
But we're adopting a new cat!!
This little man has to stay with his foster family until we get our house. We were supposed to be getting a ginger cat for Ben, but he decided he wanted a black/white cat like Harvey who we have lived with for the past 10 months.

We have moved into mum and dad's place, so we feel we are a huge step closer to our house as we are just around the corner now.
The house is basically finished, the builders have now gone past the 30 week contract period time, the rain delay time and are now in liquidated damages time.

We will meet this little man on the weekend, and then he will come home once we get the house, hopefully no more than a month away. He will be named once we meet him

Still no house

We still have no house - it is practically finished - we presume they are on a go-slow because we referred them to Dept of Fair Trading and they had orders made against them, so now they make us wait until the last possible day they can for handover.

They have absolutely no idea what COMMUNICATION means.

WORST BUILDING COMPANY IN THE WORLD

Small Ballet Girl

Come on, we've waited long enough!

Nothing has happened this week. The plumber who is the last tradie we need to come back returned from holidays on Monday and told our site supervisor he was extremely busy. We need him to come and connect up all our water, taps and toilets. So we have to wait.

THAT IS ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. VERY FRUSTRATING.

So in the meantime we have been doing a lot more work on retaining walls.

A work in progress...

Then we started digging out the front.

House - we're nearly there!

My favourite thing in the house was supposed to be my ensuite, but the tilers have totally stuffed up the tiles on my feature wall... and there are no more in Australia. So we have a dud ensuite.

So I now have a new favourite - I hadn't thought about what this would look like, and now that it is built, it's pretty fantastic - my pantry!!!

We decided to go for colour in our media room.

Water tank - not sure how it all works, hopefully there will be some instructions as we have grey water and mains water throughout.

Posts in for back retaining wall, the rest of it goes in tomorrow.

First few posts in of northern retaining wall - these plants have survive so far.

Urban Grey is the colour of the weatherboard sections

This is what happens to bad brickwork...

the Department of Fair Trading orders builders to render

The dark grey areas were always going to be rendered, the lighter colour is "paperbark" .

Izzy's first day back at kindy