On the Thursday we returned the truck and waited for our washing machine and fridge freezer to arrive... which they did. The washing machine is a top loader which is very much the go over here. It was plumbed in by yours truly and now stands proudly in the laundry room. The fridge freezer is massive by most English standards 520 litres, but not the biggest here... some have double doors, make crushed ice for you and one we saw even had a 16" television in it!!!!
After the fridge and the washing machine came the Pest Control man to treat the house and garden as we didn't know when this was last done. We have quite a big garden (yard!!!) here and we want everything to be safe for the baby, Liam, Joel and us! The man opened the hatch into the roof, but couldn't see anything (the roof is filled with pipes for the ducted air conditioning which enters in each room through a vent in the ceiling). He sprayed the ceiling space with dust............. it then rained three inch cockroaches through the vents for half an hour... at which point Beth decided to visit Sharron! He said that it was the second worse case he had seen!!! Cockroaches only come out at night but there were making a run for it due to the dust! Getting braver by the minute I managed to evict most of them. The Pest Control man then sprayed the entire outside of the house, garage and garden!
In the afternoon I managed to meet some of the neighbours who all seem really nice.
In the evening exhausted after two days of lifting and a game of football I had a shower and bumped into the biggest spider I have ever seen! Up on the wall in the Laundry the Huntsman didn't stand a chance against the power of the spray! Beth laughed because I used so much spray on it that it was completely white!... better safe than sorry!
The cockroach showers died off and they could be seen all over the garden... everything living or dead seemed to be on its back with its legs in the air!! Rich pickings for the magpies that live in our trees! (if you are wondering we saw three... so that's one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl!.. Beth now convinced!)
Beth is loving the house, I'm loving the house AND Bunnings Warehouse (imagine B&Q!).
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