The moving to Australia plan has really taken shape this month – meaning we now have a clearer plan of what to do and have started ticking some of it off. So here’s the monthly update (and in months to come, hopefully I can look back on this with a big sigh of relief that its all done!).

In the past month, I’ve:

- sold our house (hopefully)

- given my notice at work (unofficially)

- brought our flights forward (now, 6th July – or 128 days from today)

- arranged with my friend David to kindly take us in his black cab to the airport (its the details that matter!)

- learnt more about the FTSE and economics than I ever ever ever wanted to (sadly)

We’ve also decided on our plan for the time between leaving our lovely house in London (gulp, sniff sniff) and buying what sdf calls her dream house in Oz.

Basically, we will be having a holiday – holidaying in a short let apartment in London on the riverfront for a few weeks before we fly over, and holidaying in my apartment on the Sunshine Coast when we arrive in Oz. One long, long holiday – oh yes.

Things will probably become even more frantic over the next month as we start selling stuff, cancelling stuff and arranging to ship stuff. But its all exciting!

The only downside is of course the exchange rate, abysmal for the Aussie dollar. But you know, I came over here with bugger all and even if I leave with less money than I’d have had a few years ago, it will still have been the best spent 21 years of my life.

And we’ll make do with what we take – after all, its only money. I have a million memories to take back with me, loads of lovely friends and contacts to keep in touch with across the miles and a lovely family. Much more important.

Right, better get on with selling stuff ……… oops, there’s the doorbell again…