House hunting

Dear friends,

The reason I have not been writing very much here lately is that not very much has been happening, duh!

Every weekend is taken up by going looking for houses and we still haven't found one. Are we too critical and demanding? I am so sick of it, wish that somebody could just go out and buy something for us and make us take it. I wouldn't complain, promise!

The kids have even started to realise that we are struggling and the week before last they both came with us house hunting. It almost didn't happen for our son though because as he was walking out of his house and through a little park he saw a naked man sitting on a bench. I mean stark naked. He was pretty much out of it and had nothing with him, like a wallet or a phone. Our son tried to find out where he lived. He thought he could send him home in a taxi but he wasn't responding so our son went home again and got a blanket for him so he could cover up and left, only slightly delayed at that point.

He then walked into a bar, not what you think though, but one that was sitting on top of a car and sticking out quite a bit without having a red warning flag on it. He cricked his neck and I think he still has a bit of pain but he had to carry on since he was afraid to miss us at the train station.

He got the bus to his nearest station and when he got there the trains were replaced by buses and there was a bit of delay. He finally got on one of those buses and after a short drive he realised that they were not at all driving in the right direction. The young female bus driver had taken a wrong turn and sometimes that is all it takes to go somewhere completely different with all the one-way streets. It is not easy to turn a big bus around either so all this took some time.

He finally got to the pick-up point three hours later. This is normally a 40 minute trip.

Autumn is slowly easing in, the nights are colder and one can go for a walk without breaking out in a sweat. It's usually a pleasant +24° or around that in the day and nice and sunny. The surfers still surf though, they seem to do it all year but some of them wear wet-suits.

This was Mother's day in a nice tapas bar down
by the Georges River.

It's also time to buy tickets for our Europe trip and I am on it. I think we have to have a stop over somewhere so we'll see what the travel agent comes up with. However we won't be staying as long as we normally do since we need to get back to the house hunt. This weekend will be the last house-hunting outing before we go. There is a 42 days delay before you get to take over a new house for administration and a cool off period so after this week end it is too late.

I was going to add some more photos but realised when I was looking at them that they are always of us sitting at tables eating. I seem to have forgotten to take photos of beautiful landscapes. So here are a few bugs that hubby saw when he was gardening instead.

PS Yesterday we saw Australia go through to the finals in the Eurovision song contest.