Well I've not updated my blog for a while.

We have accepted an offer on our house. it's from the couple who viewed. They are 1st buyers with a mortgage in place. We are really happy and just hope it all goes smoothly.

At 1st when we accepted I felt really depressed. it was the thought of leaving our home. Australia became real. it wasnt just talking about it and filling in forms but a reality. We were selling the house we have worked hard and got into debt for and now we were selling it, knowing we could probably never afford to own a house like it again.

Well i'm over that phase now and really excited. With the sun coming out it has brightned my mood and I cant wait to start our new life. Warren and me have had a talk about everything. He leaves everthing to me and didnt think about all the things we need to plan. He just thought we could land in Oz, move into a house, get a job and surf and get a tan. I have been having sleepness nights thinking about if we will have enough money to live, rent and hopefully buy a house in future. Also were in South Australia will we settle, how do we find this out, will boys settle and how do you choose schools, what things do we take with us etc etc... With two of us thinking and doing it together, it will be an adventure and will fall into place when we get there.

We are hoping to book meds soon. I want to make sure there are no probs with them before we complete on sale of house. I think we are all healthy, but the meds seem the only thing we cant control. I know our police checks will be fine because we have never done anything wrong.

Anyway best get back to work .

Well we had a couple view our house on Friday. We were told by EA that they are 1st time buyers with mortgage in place.

They came and man said he was brought up and played on our street as a child. Lady said her mum ran the local pub. They loved the house. He said he had a builder friend drive past to see about knocking down the garage and extending at the side.

They could see his parents, brother and friends house from our bedroom window and said it was just what they were looking for. They said they would be in touch.

Well its now monday and we have heard nothing. I thought EA may have phoned with an offer or some feedback but NOTHING. We are going to have to learn that we shouldnt build our hopes up too early.

Anyway back to work now and keep hoping we have more viewers and also a good offer on house.

Hello, we are the Thorpe family. There is me Jill and i'm 31, Warren whos 32 and Liam, 11 and Jack 6. We live in Royton in Oldham. Warren is main applicant and he is a Furniture Finisher or French polisher as its known in UK.

We have been talking about moving to Oz for about 2 years. We finally decided to get the ball rolling in August 2007. We took our time getting all the details for the skills assesment together because we eventually got married on 21st September 2007. We have been together for 13 years but never got around to tying the knot.

Our agent sent our skills assesment of on 1st February 2008 and we passed on 10th February 2008. We then applied for 175 MODL visa on 19th March 2008 and are still awaiting further details.

We have decided to put our house on the market now so hopefully we would be ready to go to Oz as soon as visa came through. I dont think this will be the case as the house has been on market for nearly 2 months and we have only had 1 viewer. The house is priced cheap for our area but the market is not moving.

This is current situation and I will update again when we have more news.