Coode Street!

Myself and Hugh have finally gotten mortgage approval for our very first house! It is north of Perth city in the suburbs. From here I can cycle to work in half an hour (at great non-perspiring leisure) and hugh can drive to work in 12 minutes. There is a bus around the corner that will take us to town in around 15 minutes. Also it is a 10 minute walk from Charlie and Jane at the Strand. Get this though, they have also bought a new house and it is across the road from ours ha ha! 100 metres door to door, and that's if we walk straight across the road. If we take it at a diagonal it's even less.

Our house is in need of some renovations. We were a bit worried looking around as there are water marks on the ceilings of both bedrooms, and there is a slight sag in the big bedroom ceiling. We had an engineer come in to have a good look at everything though and he says that the house, in its day, was built brilliantly. The timbers in the ceiling are as good as the day they went in, and the only problem is that it hasn't been maintained very well. A few small jobs need to be done to raise and dry the ceilings, and the roof needs to be painted with a waterproof coating, but that's it. After that it's all cosmetic, and modernising. Phew! We are looking forward to getting going on painting and redoing the kitchen and bathroom. And installing a cinema, enormous barbecue and a pool.

Also, there is a very large sleepout room at the back of the house, which we are going to turn into a third bedroom as soon as possible, so we can fit millions of guests in lavish comfort (hint hint).

We get the keys on Friday 29th and we will move in on Saturday. First house yay!