Moved!

I've got 16 more minutes on a Library PC so I'll be brief.
We're all moved but not by any means unpacked.
We were packing all weekend putting stuff in to boxes. Got lots of boxes from work and from the bottle shop - looks like we were on a six month bender to get all the wine drunk to get the empty boxes! We hired a truck for Sunday and set to filling it.
Catherine (Hosking) kept us supplied with food so I didn't have to think about that. She arrived at morning tea with home-baked chocolate chip cookies (my favourite), at lunch with home-made felafel rolls (my favourite) and at dinner with home-made lasagne (my favourite - anything someone else cooks is my favourite). I had recently given her several years back issues of the delicious magazine and she'd made good use of them.
By mid afternoon Sunday we realised we weren't going to have nearly enough room with the one truck and Ian went off to book another for Monday morning. We also began to run out of boxes. Catherine came to the rescue again, raiding the local supermarket.
The new owners arrived mid morning to do their final inspection. They seem a nice couple. Surname Camilleri - Ian discovered later Mr. C is Maltese. They have a 17 year old son and a boy-girl twin pair who are almost 10. Despite being determined not to like them because of the haggling over the deck (just kidding) we had a long chat which was reprised on Tuesday morning when we went back for some rubbish that we couldn't get in to truck (yes we filled the second one completely) or car.
Ishbel stayed at her friend Ruby's on Sunday night - she had a dance group performance on Monday. I didn't discover that until I was dropping her off at Ruby's and Carolyn told me about lining up for hours for tickets. I don't remember getting a note about buying tickets. Sounds like the organisation was a complete schemozzle on the school's part.
Finally it was Monday morning. Jamie went off to school - he likes school - and we just had Rob for muscles. We packed up the last of the stuff and cleaned everything. We were done about 12:30pm and went down to Springwood for lunch and to await the call about 2:30pm that the settlement had been completed.
We arrived at the house just after 3pm, about the same time as Jamie coming home from school. Spent hours unpacking into the garage. Made up the beds. Sent Ian out for pizza. We'd not long sat down when Sharon and Holly turned up along with a German exchange student, Inge. While we showed them round the house, Bella helped herself to the abandoned pizza! Good job I'd had a fruit cake in the freezer which had defrosted by then.
Carolyn then arrived with Ishbel. We'd thought she'd be late home because of an evening performance but (again the school had been rubbish at letting us know) Ishbel's group doesn't perform until Thursday evening (must not forget, must not forget).
Tuesday the boys went to school and Ishbel had the day off. We had to go to the storage place to fill up the trailer they let you use. I'd booked it to be delivered to the new house on Wednesday and they would pick it up on Thursday. When we arrived, however, it was a complete surprise to the woman. She had us booked for next week!! A few phone calls and some manoeuvering of the trailer ourselves and we were able to load up. Didn't think all the stuff was going to fit but it did and it was duly delivered this morning. Just have to go home now (8 mins remaining) and make a start on the unpacking. I have spent all morning making a space for the storage stuff in the garage. Can't believe the amount of STUFF.
We were supposed to be having a gas hot water system and a gas heater installed today but again there'd been a mix up. We thought we'd bought a hot water system with wireless water temperature controllers but that's not what they'd brought (and we discovered later that's not what was ordered) and the wireless controllers are over AU$300 each so the fellas went away without doing anything. We've sorted the mix up and have decided just to have wired-in controllers (the controllers allow you to set the hot water temperature so kids can't get burned - all you have to do for having a bath/shower is turn on the hot tap - no mixing hot and cold and adjusting the temperature - great). The men will come back and do that tomorrow.
Think that's enough for now.