Home is where the heart is

At least that's what they say, but I am not so sure. We have recently had to move house since our landlord wanted his house back, and we picked this house that we are in, in a bit of a panic moment. My heart is not at all in it, in fact I don't really like it at all. Luckily we have just signed the lease for six months and we intend to unpack only the bare minimum.  That means that we have two bedrooms for storage and the whole garage. I cook with one frying pan and one pot so no exquisite dishes at the moment. We are going to give ourselves that time to try to find a place to buy even if we don't sell the house in France simultaneously. So wish us luck.

Hubby has recently discovered the charm of shopping at Aldis. You always hear stories of people popping in for some groceries and coming out with a lawnmower and a TV bench or something else unexpected. Yesterday it happened to us as well. Hubby was just going in to get some drinks and I waited in the car. He came out looking just a bit sheepish with a big package. It was an outdoor shower that he intends to bring to the cottage in Sweden??!!?? As luggage!! Well, I am glad he didn't get the trampoline that was also for sale this week. I guess we are in for many more of these little surprises now that he has seen what they sell. He did mutter about some sliding mitre saw that seemed to be absolutely essential in a home-owners life.

So you can imagine that this move has taken up pretty much all our our time since I got back from Europe in September. We have however had a few nice meals out. One was a vegetarian lunch buffet in a Buddhist retreat down south somewhere. There was also a market and traditional music and dancing.

We were also invited to our dear friends that we got to know in Grenoble and who now lives here. We had a raclette of all things, first time since I came to Australia and it was a real treat. Apparently you can order raclette cheese from somewhere in Queensland.

I must go now and get dressed before the meter guy comes to read our electricity meter.

I gave hubby a little shopping list for things to get on his way home from work. I hope he doesn't succumb to the temptation to get the 3-D printer or the lawn mower that he was also ogling last time. We are supposed to down size for goodness sake not buy more stuff.

Have a nice rest of the week, dear readers!

PS The jacaranda trees are in full bloom and they are gorgeous.