Archive for the ‘Moving house’ Category

Prowling round etsy today I found this lovely Tasmanian seller, That Vintage. I’m loving their Tasmanian myrtle wood earrings:

And their acrylic rings:

December 10th, 2009

Our furniture and personal belongings arrived from Sydney today.  This truck was 19 metres long. and about 3 metres wide. It only just made it through our front gate.

October 23rd, 2009

Well, if you read my last post dated 19 March, you will know I mentioned that a move to Tasmania was coming up. Although we hadn’t planned to move to Tasmania so soon (we were going to leave it for a 2 or 3 years before moving down), I decided to move so that I [...]

August 1st, 2009

I am completely exhausted and stressed and I can’t even begin to describe what an awful 2 weeks these past 14 days have been. On most days we have been living by the seat of our pants, living hour by hour. We’ve been trying to juggle packing and moving furniture into the storage unit with [...]

August 27th, 2008

As I’ve mentioned several times previously, we have to get out of our current rental house by 25 August. The owner wants to sell the house and make a small fortune so unfortunately we have been left in the lurch to find another place to live. When we bought the house in Tasmania we hadn’t [...]

August 9th, 2008

As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m a good way into packing my personal possessions for the next move. I’m a little concerned about Tim as he has been doing a lot of work putting things up on ebay but there’s no visible difference to the amount of his possessions around the house. I hope that he [...]

July 10th, 2008

As fate would have it, last Thursday we were given a notice by our landlord that they wanted to re-take possession in 60 days. We’re thinking that the elderly mother has died and that the middle-aged children now wanting to sell the house for a tidy sum (probably $700K plus). So since we were given [...]

July 9th, 2008