I'm all excited today, me and MrMeg spent all morning seriously discussing and planning our finances. We have come to the realisation that we will probably have little or no equity in the flat by the time we plan to leave in September 2010 due to the crappy housing market, so we have 23 months to save as much money as physically possible! What we hope is that the housing market will have dropped and will then be beginning to recover, leaving us with our initial deposit of 15k, which we can then...

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This is very very very long!

Well we got back from Australia a month ago tomorrow! We have been so busy since we got back that I haven’t had time to really sit down and think about it and write my blog!

Well I have loads to talk about so I think I’ll start at the beginning…

We flew from Heathrow, we got up really really early and got the train up for 9am check in. That was an ordeal in itself!! But check in was fine, and our flight with Quantas was really...

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According to nearly every man in the country there is something important happening on the TV tonight, something to do with a bunch of puffs, a ball, and 80 thousand of Britain’s most shameful invading Moscow. Therefore I am in my bedroom with the laptop listening to Bob Marley, and thinking about our fast approaching trip to Oz!

It will be my first ever visit, so I am really excited, and also quite nervous, as if I don’t like it I’m going to have to do some extremely serious thinking!...

Megss

Hi,

Well in typical style, my family managed to achieve the one reaction i hadn't considered - they said they didn't want to talk about it!!

My mum and dad arrived an hour early of course, so we sat in the lounge chatting until the small talk ran dry, at which point we sat in silence for a few seconds too long (i HATE silences) so i decided to break the ice by blurting out "so, we're moving to Australia..." (its the first time i've mentioned it in...

Megss

I've just finsihed cleaning the house because my Mum, Dad, Sister and Brother in Law are comming tfor sunday lunch tommorow... and we are telling them that we ARE going!

I have told my mum that we want to go a few weeks ago, she told my Dad and my Sister, but i haven't spoken to them about it myslef yet... and my sister thinks i don't know she knows - and they don't know that we are actually going for it!

I'm terrified!!! Worst of all it was...

Megss