WE HAVE A HOUSE!!

We heard the good news yesterday from Rae at Kevin House (The agent), that we have secured our dream home (well, the first one anyway) for 6 months, but the owner has agreed to let it until Dec 08, with the possibility of selling it then, so we may even BUY it if we like it that much!!!

Enjoy the pics of our house, with the pool and the dark pic is of our 'dining room' (outside ofcourse!!!) so we'll need to buy a 'barby' to chuck those snaggers on!

See you all soon, as there's even a spare room! We pick up the keys on Caity's b'day so we'll take more pics and I'll post them then (when we get web access installed!)

Cheers.

Jcp

Life on the beach

Well, A quieter day today, because we've looked at so many houses and have not been successful yet, but we're still going! We'd REALLY like the one in Gundaring, so cross your fingers and toes for us!?!
A few pics here of the beach at Rockingham. We didn't go too far in at the north end as there were some rather nice looking jelly fish, but further south, all was clear, so we had a cool off in the crystal clear waters.

House hunting

Hi, The House hunting continues and we've found this one that we'd LOVE to live in:

1st Pic is the general frontage. 2nd is the POOL! and the other house is the neighbour's, so we'll obviously be having partys there! The Lake is just around the corner too, so watch out duckies!!!

1st Days in Oz

Well, we've been here for 6 days now and feel like we're at home.

These pics are of us at our holiday rent = Cedar House, which is wonderful! Highly recommend it for any of you wanting to stay here, but not with us (as we don't have our own house yet!!!)

That's going to change soon - we're looking at eight today (Sunday) and another three tomorrow.

I'm also meeting with Geoff (my boss) tomorrow, so wish me luck.

PLEASE add a comment, cause it feels like I'm doing this for nothing otherwise???

Cheers,

Jcp, P, E n C

Singapore Airport is BRILLIANT!

Hi again,

Just found some photos of our stay at Sing Airport. Wow! What a place! It's huge and there's Sooo much to do there. Our 10 hours seemed like 10 minutes!

HIGHLY recommend the long stay there!

The pics are of us in the bar-pool!

Hi or should we say, G'day?

G'day,

Well, we actually made it!

We're now living in Oz and lovin' it!

We had a wonderful last few days in Blighty with family and friends and are looking forward to seeing you all here soon.

This post shows some photos of our lovely walk around Hawkridge Reservoir, which we loved.

Boomchicawowa!!! We have it!!!

Well - what can I say?
We actually have our visa!!!

Jodie called last Weds (2nd Jan 08) after her Xmas leave and said she hav two things for us...
... firstly, she had to apologise!!!
I thought "oh no!! what's gpne wrong?" "is there going to be MORE delays???"
but she said that she's apologising because no-one has checked her emails over Xmas and she has our visa!!!
Well, we HAD to open the Bolly there and then!
YIPPEE!
Now the real work starts and we have to sort the closing down here (UK) and the starting up of our new life in Perth.

Spoke to Charlie today and all is well on the job / lifestyle front. It was 44 degrees C in Perth on Boxing day (the highest ever recorded) but much cooler today @ 30!!!
So not long now - hopefully, only a few weeks to go and we'll be posting FROM Oz!

See you there, No Worries Mate!

STILL Waiting

Hi again,

As yo can see from the title, we're STILL waiting for our visa!!!

We keep reading the forums every day and watch for other people to see them getting theirs, with reports of Woo Hoo etc. It seems that we're the last on the list!

Still, it could be worse... at least the weather has been kind for a few weeks!

See pic of recent sunsets?

Will let you know as soon as we get the blinkin thing!!!

Case Officer news!!!

Yes - we actually have our CO as of last Friday.
Jodie called us to tell us the good news and we just need to send our police checks when they arrive (expected around end of Oct) and that should be all they want - so YIPPEE!!!!
LOTS of celbrations this weekend, so watch the h.over!
CHEERS!

A few more photos!!!

Just can't wait to get here.

A step closer!!!

Good news last week!

We had the call we've been waiting for...to say that our application is being given to a case officer soon! Hooray!

We heard from our friend also going that they can expect a 2 to 10 week period and they'll have theirs! WE think we're about 6 weeks behind them, so fingers crossed!

We've also had a change of agent - Sammy's gone (not sure where!!!) and Jodie is our new agent, so hopefully, a change of agent will mean a change in speed and we'll be in Oz before we aimed for - in November!!!! PLEASE!!!

Found a few more photos, so enjoy them, bit better still - come and visit us when we're there! To see the place for yourself!

Its been a while!

Well - it's been a while since the last post, so I thought I'd put something here today...

...We've done all we can do as far as visa's concerned and we're just WAITING!!! now.

We've even done the medicals etc, so all we have to do is book the movers, pack and FLY as soon as we hear that our visas are coming!

I was browsing the 'tinternet' today and found this link to some beautiful 360 views of the surrounding area around Perth WA, so take a look - you might need to download their 'viewer'! I did it's OK!!! (no virus or anything!)

http://www.migrate360.com/perth/secure/qtvr/php?id=103

I'll keep you all up to date with how things progress as soon as I hear anything.
Cheers, Jcp

More Ozzy photos

A few shots of the areas around Perth. We're gonna live in a place called 'Canning Vale', about 15 miles East of Freo.

And me too!

A pic of us in the sea... floating about in warm (ish) water is definitely for us!

Back from oz III

More pics of 3 at Caversham, having fun in the sun!

The beach at Scarborough...

...No not THAT Scarborough!!!

The pool at the Butler house,

The pool at Adnenture World and...

Another one of the pool!