Another word only post as due to the random frustrations of technology: my Dad’s internet connection gave up this afternoon.

Today we paid the deposit on an apartment in Seatoun!  We will officially have a home in Wellington on 24 March – the Thursday before Easter.  But before you book your tickets there is a little bit of work to do: definitely painting and maybe new carpet.  So we think we’ll be in by mid-April.

It’s in a block of four with each one an entire level of the building. If you want to google, it’s 3/279 Karaka Bay Road.  We’ll be about 20 minutes from the CBD and less than 10 to the airport.  Moving back to Wellington I aspired to a water view and have definitely got one.  Close enough to the sea to hear the gulls and see the Eastbourne ferry pull into Seatoun wharf!

Slowly aspects of life are falling into place. Our car should be here in the next week or so, and I will start italian lessons at the Circolo Italiano di Wellington on 17 Feb.  And we now have NZ drivers’ licences and are working through various bits of life admin.  It will be really good though to get our stuff out of storage and have our own space again.

We are off to the cricket at the Cake Tin (officially its Westpac Trust Stadium) in Wellington tomorrow – go those Black Caps!