G'Day from a sunny and mild Melbourne. It absolutly tipped down yesterday (almost making me home sick) but another nice Autumn's day today. I'm writing this enjoying a coffee sat outside Starbucks in the CBD - Alison has allowed me to escape for a couple of hours. Maisie and Alison are well and enjoying our new life. Maisie's fed up of us boring oldee's and wants to start school to meet some people her own age.

Just about over all the jet lag - this is definatley the worst I've ever experienced, but guess it's the longest I've travelled.

This week we need to concentrate on finding somewhere more perminant to live and hense enroll Maisie in school. They have a werid system of open houses, were for half a hour anyone can turn up and have a look at a rental property and if they are intetested put in an application.

We've looked at 2 places so far. The first on Friday was terrible, it was like the Munster's house. Fine to buy, gut, and spend 30 grand on doing up. But not to rent. The second place was really nice, 2 minutes from where we are staying in Richmond. It was a nice two up two down modern town house for urban professional types! We will stick an app in, but think we'll be unlucky this time. I'm sure they will be inandated.
 
Think everyone will love it here, Melbourne's a lovely place and I look forward to showing everyone around in next year. It's my kind of place realy - bit arty, loads of coffee shops, interesting cosmopoliton people. However, everyingthing seems better when you haven't got to endure the daily comute to work and eight hours starting at a computer screen!

Uploaded some pic's from our first week in Mebourne to flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/exorcising-ghosts/sets/72157600157340718/

need to sort tags and discriptions, etc.