Moved in...

It's been 2 weeks today since we picked up the keys... Our first week was a waste of time with one of us having to be at the house every day waiting on various tradesman to turn up and do their 'fix'. It started out with 'we'll have everything done by Monday' which then turned into Tuesday, and then Thursday and finally 'the tilers will be done Friday, you'll have to wait till monday for the caulkers..."

So after a week from hell we moved in over the weekend and have had a difficult week moving the dregs from the other house, cleaning it and getting it ready to hand back the keys as well as trying to get our fence up.

We have a dog and so we've been trying to get the fences organised as close as possible to the date we moved in. First we were waiting on the quotes to be redone, and then we were waiting on the neighbour to agree and pay the deposit. Finally we had a date set for Tuesday this week. That quickly got foiled due to Melbourne's horrific weather on both Monday and Tuesday. Finally the fencers arrived on Wednesday only to find that the neighbours block was being prepped for a slab and the concretors told them to leave it and come back Friday - which they accepted without even contacting us!! After making several calls to the fencing guys we managed to get them to come out today and make a start but not before our dog got out and ran through the neighbours slab mid pour... (wouldn't have happened if they hadn't delayed our fencing....)

At last we have fence posts up and a promise (I'm still skeptical) that it will be finished by Saturday...

We did manage to get 1 car into the garage on the second night but that's the "good" car that 'couldn't possibly stay out overnight' (OH's car - can you tell?..) and so what was organised chaos, quickly turned into complete chaos - 'organised' has left the building!

Now I'd better get back to my unpacking....