I realised that a small milestone had passed about a month ago that I completely overlooked – I’ve now been a home owner for one full year. Within that time interest rates have increased at record-breaking speeds and then dropped just as quickly, house and land prices have followed suit.
Completely unrelated to the local [...]
Once again it’s been a while since my last update (this seems to be happening a lot lately).
In the ‘big update‘ I did a little over a month ago, I mentioned a few good things and a few bad. One of the bad things was that our house was broken into. Well it happened again. [...]
I could go on and on about how busy I’ve been lately which is why the blog has been a little neglected (which is true… but it still sounds like a fairly lame excuse) so instead, I’ll tell you about all the stuff that has happened over the last month and a half and then [...]
Last weekend (the one that happened 9 days ago… not yesterday) we had our house warming / Kristy’s birthday party and it was a really great night.
The group consisted mainly of family and a few close friends which worked-out well because there was a reasonable amount of mingling (we feared that by having an event [...]
The boys in my family have never really been renowned for being particularly ‘handy’ when it comes to building things, fixing things or really doing anything involved with tools… and to be honest, I think I’m the worst out of all of them.
To give you an indication of the confidence we have when it comes [...]
The last 8 weeks have been the busiest, most stressful, most eventful and most fulfilling 8 weeks I think I’ve ever been through.
In this time, Kristy and I have booked an overseas holiday to go and visit Con, Gerard and Chris in the UK (as well as spending some time sight-seeing in France and Italy).
We [...]