MOVING from Cairns to Melbourne Update

I bought the packing boxes today , 20 Tea Chests and 20 Book Boxes. Big plastic bags for the mattresses and lounge etc.

The BBQ is clean now. The lighter-clicker thing still doesn't work but I believe it not working is actually a feature of the Weber Qs after a year or two, and shows it is a genuine Weber product. A very good BBQ.

The selling of the BBQ has covered the cost of the packing boxes to the dollar.

The place is crowded as always...much like a Chinese furniture shop ... fitting a big Thai 4 bedroom 40 sq metre 3 level apartment full of stuff into this Australian sized 3 bedroom 12 sq metre place has always been a challenge...now, at least when we get to Melbourne the house there will be big enough for our gear...or we can just light a bonfire in the backyard and burn everything whilst we dance around it. Now, there's a thought.

Potential tenants come by at 4pm today and I will leave them to have a look around with the managers. I will leave a note saying they can have all the plants, including the incredibly lucky Chinese Jade Plants, and their interesting Chinese pots, if they want or I will get them out of the balcony and sell them or give them away etc.

The place does look nice, if crowded just now, as always. It was built brand new, high spec, and over priced at the time of the Great Recession of 2008 and so was VERY overpriced, though nicely done, and no one bought it til we did 3 and a half years back when the price was down by 100,000... So it has only been lived in for a few years and everything is easy to clean, even the bathrooms... (except that fcking BBQ).

Anyway, it is the coolest place I've ever lived in Cairns, because of the good cooling atrium design of the towers themselves, and it is very quiet and normal people with a normal amount of gear would find it very modern and quite spacious.

So, from now til 20th december, we just pack and clean slowly, pack and clean etc. Not bad.

We may well have baulked at the cost of the move, that we really can't afford , and especially seeking work in a very distant place etc...but there was something about Donald Trump becoming President of the USA...if he could do that, well, we can do anything. So off we go.