[kiwidebs]

Wow. Just caught up on the posts. Fab fab fab house. I like it loads more than the other one you nearly got. Not too sure about the bathroom blue though, a bit bright for my tastes (just call me Magnolia Girl!! :mrgreen: ).
And congrats :raebanana on the moderator job. 'Bout time I'd say.

Debs

[Wiggles]

Hi Moorf

Sorry thought I had read this thread through - must have skipped a page :angel Good on you though - the house if FAB! Hope you are very happy there - when do you take occupation? Great house and with the flat section I think it is better than the last. Meant to be :uhoh

Wiggles

[Babette & Andy]

Wow Helen, I've just come back from a chilly but very enjoyable (3inches of snow) week at Centerparcs Sherwood Forest to all your great news :nice1
Congrats on your house, looks wonderful, bet you're on countdown to the 1st of April. ITA - :hopeso you'll hear something during the week. And Lounge Moderator - well deserved :clap :clap
Have a great weekend.
Babette :cheers

[miep]

Moorf,

Congratulations on your house :nice1

I've got to agree with Diny; Heaps more character! I particularly like the fact that this one doesn't have aluminium windows. (Pet hate of mine)
And the garden looks fantastic, I'd almost consider moving to Chch for those prices!

I'm sure you'll both be very happy there.

How long is the drive to Sumner for your job?

Miep

[Moorf]

Thanks Miep... drive to Sumner is approx 10-15 mins - did a test drive just the other day in "rush" hour :nice1 So, by the time I order my panini and coffee for brekkie I should be at the deli in Sumner just as the froth is put on the coffee :laugh :nice1

[shagen]

Hi Helen,

Have been missing in action for awhile (read as busy) and just got round to reading the threads.

Great house! This is really nice!

And congrats on appointed Moderator!

Shagen

[Soon2baKiwi]

Congrats Moorf - que sera, sera. The house is really beautiful and the first thing I noticed was that it's got 'proper' curtain rails :nice1 That's the one thing I hate about most of the houses you see on Realenz etc. the window dressings hardly ever look nice.

[Moorf]

Well, we got our house and now.....

WE HAVE RESIDENCY!!! :mrgreen:

Yup, one week after I dropped in the ITA we have a letter confirming we just have to pay the Migrant Levy ($600) and we'll get our Residency Permit and RRV :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana

I feel like I've come to the end of a journey - thanks to everyone on the forum who has put up with my moaning, tolerated my often iffy sense of humour and, of course, supported and advised both Woz and I throughout the last year. :cheers

Moorf & Woz
xxxxxxxxxx

[Tanya]

Helen & Warren

Let me be the first to congratulate you :nice1 :nice1 :nice1

Drinks all round then?? :cheers

Tanya

[shagen]

:clap :cheers :clap

Finally, the finish line!

Congratulations Helen and Warren!

Cheers
Shagen & Vera

[eric_amanda]

:clap :nice1 Congratulations to you both, I guess you can sit back and get on with the rest of your lives now!! ;)

[Tara Sage]

Good on Yer!

:nice1 :nice1 :nice1
:cheers :cheers :cheers
:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

[kiwi]

you are a kiwi!

(isnt this where you say "time to leave the forum...time to move on'?)

yeah, right! :P

[xanctus]

Congartulations Helen and Warren!!!
finally the wait is done eh? hope all of us will join your path :D
:cheers :cheers :cheers

[MB]

So excellent and so pleased for you!

:raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :cheers :cheers :cheers :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana


Cheers!
Matt and family.

[Dave & Sandra]

Congratulations. At last the end of the road - and the new house as well. All of your Christmases and Birthdays at once. :clap :cheers :clap :cheers :clap :cheers

[miep]

Congrats again!!! :nice1

Now you can relax and really get on with your lives. Thats what it felt like for us, we didn't get residency until about 3 yrs after we arrived, bought a section, built a house and found jobs!

:cheers Miep

[Diny]

Congratulations.

That really is great news - well done.

Diny

[Hannah-NL]

Wow, youre going like a steam train there Moorf! :laugh
Congrats from over here and well done, when's the party?
Wish I could be there!
:flower:

Hannah-NL

[leslie]

so you've got the house AND you are allowed to live in it. bit nice. and its the weekend. and you are in nz. gee whizz gosh darn golly aint that there tthe best....

[Nicola]

Well done Moorf and Woz, you are an inspiration to the rest of us sitting back here in the UK. :clap :clap :clap :clap

Nic

[jesselyn]

woohooo! http://img8.smiliedb.de/sdb53590.gif congrats! http://img0.smiliedb.de/sdb60678.gif
happy for you and warren! http://img0.smiliedb.de/sdb80047.gif

cheers,
jes

[Suzy Rimbo]

:nice1 Moorf

Well it's all finally come together, :cool

Crack open the bubbly and get bladdered, (Shh don't tell john)

Congratulation you deserve it.

Suzy

[kiwidollie]

Congratulations to you both :nice1

What a good week this is turning out to be aye?

:cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers

Gonna have some beers on behalf of all the forumites tonight :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes :yes

[Moorf]

Thank you all soooo much for your kind words. There will definitely be a party and anyone who can make it is very welcome... :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers

[Jodie]

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH!!! :clap

I'm so pleased for you! I feel a weekend of celebration and partying coming on!! :cheers :nice1 :raebanana

Well done, you kiwi house owners, you! ;) :mrgreen:

Jod & Daz
xx

[Babette & Andy]

Congratulations to you both, the end of long road, and the beginning of a new journey :clap :clap Thank you for letting us all be part of your experiences so far. You'll have to start a new thread now: Moorf & Woz the early Kiwi years :nice1
Well deserved you guys.
Hugs
Babette

[Hannah-NL]

So when will you be moving Moorf? That garden looks so pretty! :yes

[sarahw]

Hi Moorf,

Just caught up on this thread... heck I have missed a lot! There's so much to congratulate you on!!!!!! so

CONGRATULATIONS!!! :cheers :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :cheers

A house, moderator, a job and PR???!!!!!!!! Whooo hooo!!!! You must be feeling on top of the world! Well deserved on all counts! :nice1

[Mike & Nicola]

Well done, completely deserved!

[Moorf]

Went to the immigration office with our EFTPOS card and passports today and after parting with the last $600 within minutes had those lovely blue PR and RRV stickers in our passports :nice1

And 2 weeks to go before we move into our house!!

:cheers

[Tanya]

:cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers

Well done guys!!

Tanya :nice1

[kiwi]

how do you feel? do you feel different?
better? worth the hassle?
happy to be future kiwis?

questions questions...I should ring you I guess! (but I am on line and we dont have broadband!)
nic

[Moorf]

Tanya - can we come round and stare at each others PR stickers??!!

Kiwi - Feel great - feel like we belong and DEFINITELY worth the hassle and the cost and the waiting, and the tears, and the stress!

Can't wait to make the next move and get our NZ passports! And then we're sponsoring over our parents!! My mother is already looking at property.

:nice1

[kiwi]

Tell her mt maungi up north is nice!

or blenheim where her mates are...and only 4 hrs from you...yay!
I am pleased things are fabbo...nice to hear after all the others finding it not what they were looking for

see you friday, looking forward to it, and nig is too I think secretly!
Nic

[voth30]

Hi Helen and Warren,

Congratulations on your PR. As the New Zealanders would say it, Good on ya, mate.

Hope to meet you guys when we visit CHCH after our trip to Palmerston in late May. We are buying our air tickets to NZ this weekend. Hopefully we will get the preferred dates. Send my regards to Shagen, vear and family.

Vincent, Joo Bee and Junius (from Singapore)

[Tanya]

Tanya - can we come round and stare at each others PR stickers??!!

Kiwi - Feel great - feel like we belong and DEFINITELY worth the hassle and the cost and the waiting, and the tears, and the stress!

Can't wait to make the next move and get our NZ passports! And then we're sponsoring over our parents!! My mother is already looking at property.

:nice1

Well.. you could BUT.. I was offering Richard's as he is the only 1 in our family that needed a sticker BUT... you could come over and look at the children's and my NZ passports over a coffee if you want
:laugh :laugh :clap

Tanya

[Hannah-NL]

Helen and Warren congrats from Holland on your PR! :P
Btw I think you should make a book out of this thread...

Hopefully we will be able to do a similar thing this year, probably with a bit more stress due to kids and pets, but we too think it's worth while. And we're not even there yet!!

[richard]

Tanya - can we come round and stare at each others PR stickers??!!



I'll show you mine if you show me yours :nice1

[Hannah-NL]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! :eek

[Moorf]

:uhoh :uhoh :uhoh The wife is listening :eek

[Tanya]

:uhoh :uhoh :uhoh The wife is listening :eek

YES I AM! :?

Tanya

[kiwi]

Ive seen it, it is nothing great.....!!

[Moorf]

It cost $1000+ and has a hologram!! Of course it's worth it!! :laugh :laugh

[kiwi]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
that is not what richard said!!

[Hannah-NL]

"It" has a hologram? Wonder if it lights up in the dark as well...

[richard]

Ive seen it, it is nothing great.....!!

Hey you shouldn't have been looking :oops: but I will get to see if it works over Easter :P

No I am not talking about trying to raise the dead although I might get crucified if this thread strays much further :uhoh

We are popping to Sydney for the weekend. If they don't let me back in to NZ it's been nice knowing you all :(

[richard]

:uhoh :uhoh :uhoh The wife is listening :eek

YES I AM! :?

Tanya

I thought you said it was ok to look as long as you don't touch :P

[Moorf]

If they don't let you back in, can I have your Jag? :laugh :laugh

[richard]

If they don't let you back in, can I have your Jag? :laugh :laugh

But it will only come with three sets of keys. Will that be enough :exit

[veronica]

It's ok, I think its best if Warren pins them to her jumper (bit like kids mittens)

[Moorf]

:oops: :oops: :oops:

You guys crack me up... I have one set of keys left to come and sign your Jag :laugh

[Tanya]

Ive seen it, it is nothing great.....!!

:uhoh :uhoh :uhoh The wife is listening :eek

YES I AM! :?

Tanya

I thought you said it was ok to look as long as you don't touch :P

Are we still just talking about PR stickers or has Kiwi once again with her innuendos turned this smutty! :roll:

Tanya :roll:

[Moorf]

Careful, I might mention our new deck! :laugh :laugh

[Hannah-NL]

of cards?

[kiwi]

it is your hubby talking about 'raising the dead"
so we wont ask what that meant!

[Tanya]

:no

Anyway... back to the thread...

[Tanya]

:oops:

Tanya

[Hannah-NL]

I personally would think that Jag would look great on the driveway of your new house Moorf ;)

[Tanya]

I personally would think that Jag would look great on the driveway of your new house Moorf ;)

And it will - when we are invited over for the house warming we shall arrive in it!! :laugh :laugh

Tanya

[Moorf]

:laugh We'll park it as the top of the drive.. but then you'll be first there anyway :nice1 am planning the lamb dinner :cheers

[Jodie]

You guys better make sure you have a bottle of wine for us, seeing as we can't be there. :no If you don't, I'll be having words!! (I want to see a pic with you all having a drink for us - we'll have a drink for you here in Welly at the same time! :cheers )

Next time we'll be there.... Just think of this as a warm up party for when we come down to ChCh! :laugh

Jod
:nice1

[shagen]

Just caught up with this thread. Happy for you guys...

Yeah! We'll have a drink for you as well from up here! ;)

Are you having that ommelette throwing thing too? :laugh :laugh

[Moorf]

:laugh :laugh

I've had enough of omlettes for a while!!!

So excited - we move house on Friday 1st!! :raebanana

And guess what, I was approached about 3 jobs on Thursday.. :uhoh how weird - all in the same day and all related to marketing (my career in a previous life :laugh ). And I have never even applied for any jobs - :eek turns out a customer from the surf shop has been mentioning to her agency friends that there's a marketing bod working in her local surf shop and one of the other offers came from the guy who is looking at buying this rental - he's a property investor! :laugh

We were meant to be going away this weekend, but Summer has hurt her foot and we had to go to the vet on Saturday morning intead of heading to the West Coast - so we just did a couple of days touring the areas around Chch. So glad we did, we hadn't been out for a drive in a while and had forgotten what is on our doorstep... after 1hr 20min drive we arrived at Lake Coleridge and it was like we'd driven to Austria for the day... stunning!

http://www.practicalsoftwaresolutions.net/nz/lakecoleridge.jpg

[Soon2baKiwi]

Wow!

[jesselyn]

this is cool! :clap thanks for sharing, helen! :nice1

hope summer is okay now... :hopeso :angel

[Hannah-NL]

I think I will be coming back a few more times to drool over this pic.
And if this is what NZ autumn is like, I love it! :yes

[jan]

O M G !

The pictures that are posted on this site are postcard standard.

They take your breath away.

Jan xx

[Moorf]

It's the scenery and colours here that make the pics so stunning - and the light is amazing too. :nice1

Should have added - when we got out of the car to take this pic the air was still, the sun warm, crickets were, eerrrr, cricketing :uhoh and the scent in the air was gorgeous.. and so fresh... *sigh* We went down to the lake shore and skimmed stones - the water was so clear it was hardly there.. and the silence was deafening.

Oh, and Summer is fine thanks. She had a little blue paw bandage for a bit but it's off now and she's not limping anymore (she'd split her nail/claw badly :( ).

[Tanya]

Helen & Warren

Your house is great - thanks for showing us around. A real Helen Warren & Summer home! :clap I hope you will settle into home life quickly.

Looking forward to spending more time there on that porch on balmy evenings, wine in hand(but hope we don't have to wait until next summer for that invite! ;) )

All the best in your new home guys!

Tanya
xx

[Hannah-NL]

Love that description of the lake visit, the one on the porch is not bad either :nice1

[sarahw]

Well firstly congrats on your house move!!! I think you'll be in there by now.

Secondly, you should frame that photograph its stunning!!!

Good luck in your new home - I'm sure you'll be doing a bit of housewarming!! :cheers

[leslie]

nice place. swimmable or just gawpable? auckland is great but there are so many lovely places to live in nz sometmes i feel a bit annoyed we have to go there (work). at least its not 'hotel california'...

hope new house full of happy surprises (thinking gift fridge full of champagne).

[Moorf]

Well folks.. we're in! Had a knackering weekend cleaning, unpacking, cleaning and... cleaning - I really don't know why I am so fastidious when leaving our properties because no-one else seems to care about leaving their houses in a mess :?

BUT - that aside, it's lovely to have a home again - have been pottering today after Veronica took us on a tour of Super Shed and the Mission which are sort of salvage yards! I bought a lovely wooden stool for a massive $1 and Woz found us a Flymo push-mower for just $55 which looked like it had been used just once or twice! :nice1 (if you've seen my list if fruit and veg in the lounge you'll realise we have a small-ish lawn!). Summer is loving her new garden - lots to explore and new cats to chase (had one shin 15ft up the pine tree the other day :? )!

I have just lit my first fire - Woz was impressed ;) - we have had the woodburner on in the evenings and we had to open the doors the other night as the house was ... (and here's something you don't hear much on this forum...) the house was TOO HOT!!! It's a very toasty house and we're stoked. :P

The only thing that is taking some getting used to, on my part, is living in a "city" environment again which we haven't done for years. Weird to have such close neighbours!! And I am constantly worried someone will burgle us! Irrational? Hope so! But the house is set back and it's quiet - and I have a lovely view of the Port Hills from my bed!! :mrgreen:

I guess I better sort out the house-warming now.... :clap

Moorf

[sarahw]

Sounds wonderful - post some photos of your view of the hills when you're settled - would love to see the view!

For now enjoy!!! So exciting & you're so lucky to have a woodburner - am currently sat under 3 fleece & wool blankets (with a body warmer on) - refuse to put the heating on yet! - trying to entice the warm kittens to come & sit on my lap to warm me up! Will have to make do with the laptop on my knee for the minute!

By the way - worrying about getting burgled :laugh I wouldn't worry too much - I'm sure its less likely where there are people around. We live in a house with 5 patio doors (all facing onto a public pathway - at the back of the house) & I found it really funny that instead of burgalar alarms when we went to some open homes people put planks of wood at the patio doors to stop anyone opening them from outside & breaking in!!! - typical Kiwi style that!