What a difference a day makes...

Well, quite a few days, actually...to be truthful, months of sheer agony.  I've never been so stressed or worked so hard in all my life during the finding of and moving into this house.  The day of the move I went to bed about 7pm and my sister had to wake me the following morning at 10!  Been here five days now and have just discovered how to use my laptop as a laptop, and without the mouse!  Tricky.

I'm sitting in my living room (as in the photo) looking out onto the pool.  It's terribly hot outside but I'm as cool as a cucumber in here.  Muffy is asleep on my bed.  Fortunately I've not had to worry about her at all.  She miaowed all the way down in her cage on the front seat of my car, then made a bee-line for the walk-in wardrobe and tiptoed out in the middle of that first night to cuddle Mummy in bed.  She then had a nibble of her bikkies and did a wee in her litter tray, then hopped back onto the bed.  She's only ventured out once or twice and that for only a couple of minutes.  Seems she's become an inside cat overnight.   

Great to hear from you Bianka (Germany), and to know you're reading my blog.  Also great to be back in touch with you Tarja (Finland).  I hope to be more regular now as the worst is behind me and I should soon be getting back to normal.

I didn't move on Monday as mentioned in the last blog.  Philip had workmen pulling out the old ceilings with their dozens of halogen downlights, replacing them with state-of-the-art soundproofing and central lights.  Then he had to paint all the rooms.  So the move was delayed till Thursday.  What an effort he put in!  He went to the old house a few times to help me with the packing, then helped with the unloading here and had to fix up my TV antenna, tune my TV to Sydney channels, connect my washing machine and change my computer server.  Next job will be to get me a phone. Then we have to put in a kitchen. No hurry for that as the upstairs folk are bringing me the most delicious meals on a tray.  Talk about healthy eating!  No wonder the Japanese live so long!