mOZzy

morning

yes FA i am up early ... again
just can't sleep and wake at 4am every morning!!!
and so does my daughter - well shortly after .... and my son joined us today too


welcome back DAN!!!!
great that you liked perth. did you get any questions answered?
picked out a nice area already?

but oh boy, no words for you mil - well, none i could say on here

Fly Away

Morning all,

DTP! YAY! Welcome back Dan - hope you had a great time! Bloomin MIL - I would have killed her.:curse: I suspect she doesn't want you to go!!!

Hi Mozzy - I managed to sleep til 7am today - better than yesterday which was 4am. Have you always woken early or is it a stress thing like me?

Nicky - glad you and your OH had some time together last night. LOL at your OH eating crsips outside - mine never would even if he had just hoovered....

nickywes

Morning DTP, welcome back Bet you are sooo happy to be back in the UK Shoot the MIL!

Morning Mozzy - I am an early bird too, think it is when you have kids the body clock just changes or maybe there is too much going around the mind.

Morning N - good luck for today, will be thinking of you

angiek

Hi DTP

We just came back from perth this week as well.

We think exactly like you Perth is fab, cant wait to be out there.

House selling is crap.

Angiek

JenniGee

Not so bad here now, though I did have about 5 months of 2 hours a night sleep from Jan through to about 2 weeks ago. I think it was all the stress of being overcrowded in the previous house together with getting my head around the prospect of Court with ex.

Of course, once (if ever) we get the visa, I'll be back to making teas for the dawn chorus again.

Bloody hell, only a few more days until midsummer

Best of luck house-selling people

mOZzy

should we start an early bird chat at 5.30 am then ?

well i guess a few factors coming together!
the kids (including me) used to sleep till 6am which i am ok with really.
BUT i guess all this stress doesn't help and i wake at 4ish now.
AND my daughter discovered how to escape her cot. she's cute so and is really really quiet, tiptoes downstairs to check if anybody's there, then comes upstairs and puts her head around our door - around 5ish i wave her into our bed for so 20min anything earlier i just send her back to bed which she does
but lately so 5.30 i get up with her and normally my son sleeps till 7 now () - just not today ...

oh my, please let me out of this blooming house selling business

carolinephillips

I often get up at 6am or earlier, as I am a lark. OH is an owl so when i go to bed at 10- having fallen asleep on the sofa at 9!- he stays up- sometimes at the weekend til 1am. I find I can get a lot of things done, or just have breakfast and do sudoku or kenken for a bit before daughter comes down. I take OH a coffee in bed, he takes one sip and goes back to sleep!
Caroline

Fly Away

Hi again everyone,

Multiquote playing up again.... still bringing up my previous post quotes and not letting me quote some of you, but allowing others... mad.

Thanks Nicky - he's coming at 2pm. the house is clean now. Just have to get changed and try and eat lunch without making a mess.

Oh yes, we need release from this soon. My Dd sleeps until 9am - and I used to until the last 8 weeks. I'm so tired in the day and often fall asleep in the afternoon. I try not to as it means I sleep even less at night. I wake up sweating with my heart racing going through loads of stuff in my head. It's always worse with PMT too. The only thing to stop it is to get up and do something.

AngieK and DTP - you should have met up!!

Nicky, how is your daughter doing - is she still in Perth?

nickywes

Get your clothes and lunch and hot foot it into the garden without ruining the stripes in the carpet

DD2 is making her way upwards towards Darwin but so far have got to Monkey Mia, Carnarvon and all the bits on the way up. They have met loads of people all backpacking and they have decided to do a bit of fruit picking as an experience. They have been told to keep well away from the bananas as that is where the snakes and spiders hang out If they don't they will be carrying them around in their bag. It is a really good opportunity for them before they settle down to the humdrum of real life

Fly Away

LOL, it's pouring with rain here now - after a beautiful morning - typical as he is mainly coming to look at the garden. So we had to eat inside. Just caught DD walking around with a sandwich in her hand shaking crumbs everywhere....:curse: Got to hoover again now. It's like groundhog day I tell you.

Glad your DD is having a good time. Did they get the camper van in the end? I will be aiming to get up to Monkey Mia the next time were over in perth as we didn't make it last time. (Went down to Margaret River instead as we only had 7 days in WA) Definately wise to stay away from bananas then!

Off2Oz

Oh your poor niece. She must have been going through a terrible time. I'm afraid I don't know why people stay - probably too terrified to leave. At least she's left now and things will start to get better for her.

Ic doesn't seem to come on here much these days. Too busy over on the dark side, lol.

Good luck with the private buyer today.


Good news that the viewers liked it. You never know they could have one of those houses that sell really quickly.

Just wished I had one of those.

Good luck to Steve on his bike ride.

Hiya Dan, good to see you back. Bad news about the house. Bet you could have killed her.:curse:

We're off to Perth as well and can't wait to go. Just need to sell this bloomin' house.

You'll have to count me out of the early bird chat. I cannot get up early. I'm an owl and hate getting up. I struggle to get up at 7.30am on school mornings and normally end up getting up at 8.

My dad went to Monkey Mia last year and absolutely loved it. Did she get to see the dolphins? My dad said that you can wade into the water and the dolphins can come up really close. That's a place I'd like to go when we eventually get out there.

It's a beautiful day here, nice and sunny but with a breeze too. Perfect washing day.

I find myself going around after the children with a dustpan and brush.

I want to go to Margaret River as well.

Good Food show was really good. Ate lots of food (free samples), saw John Torrode and the Hairy Bikers. Does anyone watch Dragon's Den? Well there was a bloke on there a couple of series ago who was making a spicy carribean sauce. His name was Levi Roots. Well he was there as well.

So I had a good day and managed to forget about the house as well.

No viewings booked as yet, even though we've brought the price down by £30k.

Angib

You can buy that Levi Roots sauces in Sainsbury's - its fab

nickywes

It is a beautiful day here, although it is starting to cloud over now. I was sat in the office earlier, which faces the front and a couple were stood right outside looking at the house. I didn't know whether to duck down or get out of the room so just sat here pretending not to notice I am so sure that we will be renting it out that I really couldn't care too much if we get the viewers now. Sad isn't it.

About the camper van!!!!! She sent me an email with the title her new home and this is what it is below. I was horrified at first but they are young and willing to sleep anywhere


There are so few buyers out there at the moment but things must pick up soon

Off2Oz

Well, I bought a bottle yesterday so I'm going to try it this week.

Fly Away

Sounds like you had a good day. It's good to forget for a while. I am trying to get out more and not think about it. Sitting in your clean house waiting for viewers is a killer.

OMG!! I see what you mean about the van. They must be having the time of their lives though. OH and I first went together when we were 26 and had an amazing holiday. Although, even then, I wouldn't slum it!

Well the PB has been and gone. Making plans for what he was going to do with the house. (Good sign) Partial success with my plan - which was to say we would have to accept the other offer but would be prepared to drop them if he could raise the money. He says the bank have said yes verbally and he is waiting for it in writing - he is buying it through his business. Once again he says he will call this coming week to confirm. Back to hedging the other offer now.... until about Thursday I think, then we will have to accept it.