For Sale

We are selling up and moving on. It's time for change. Our home for the last 12 years has been polished, painted and styled so that it looks amazing, but is not really our comfortable lived-in home anymore. It's a show home out on display and ready for sale. Toys and kids stuff are not in every room, the junk and dross of life is gone, no tea towels, no files of paper, no dirty dishes, no lego under the couch, no shampoo bottles, no crumbs on the counter, little hand prints are removed from the windows, each and every room is sparse and clean. And until its sold, that's the way it has to stay.

Needless to say living in a home on sale with two small children has its challenges. I have caught myself saying,
"Dont touch the walls, eat over your plate, don't use the white towels, get your hands off the window."

Despite their mother turning into a cleaning machine B and Little Miss have been fantastic. They love the idea of moving, and they are most adaptable. They particularly loved the idea of moving into a house with other kids toys in it. I had to explain we didn't leave our stuff behind and neither did the people in the other house. A conversation about house fittings soon deteriorated though as I couldn't explain to B why the dishwasher stayed, but the fridge comes...


Why would we do all this? When we bought our inner city house we were a couple, as we are now a family, our little plot on inner city land is just too small. We have made do as best we can, a sandpit and water feature have been great entertainment. A gravel driveway has been paved for ball games and bikes, we have even put in tiny areas of imitation lawn to keep little toes happy, but there comes a time when you have to face facts. As much as we love this house and its location, we are all longing for more space. A real garden that we can grow vegetables in, space for a trampoline, or even a pool, trees to climb, a real lawn to run on. Our new house has all of this and much much more.

Exciting times are ahead...