A new feature

And we have a house. Well, we have agreed a price on a house, now it is just a case of getting everying sorted out with the conveyancer and surveyer (takes about 3 weeks), then paying a deposit, then settling 6 or 8 weeks later. Then we will have a house. Although, there are plenty of cases of house sales collapsing before the deposit is paid. Fingers crossed everyone!!!

So, that brings us to a new feature-the Australian dollar to British pound exchange rate. We are bringing over a pretty big sum of money from Australia (mind you own business), and even a small change in the exchange rate could effect the kind of furniture we buy. The exchange rate over the last couple of years have hovered around the 0.4 mark. If we bring the money over at 0.44, we are getting a superking, massage, amazo-bed. At 0.42, we are getting a very comfortable queen bed. At 0.40, we are getting a queen bed from the local Argos (crap shop-don't laugh, that's where we are getting the guest bed from). At 0.38 we are sleeping on a yoga mat. At 0.35, we are sleeping in the driveway because they wont give us the keys when we show up with no money. Right now, the exchange rate is 0.4359, so hooray. 2 months ago, it was 0.415, so it is moving in the right direction. But it is still 2 months until we bring the money over, so hopefully it wont go back down. Do us a favour, go and lobby the Aussie government to put interest rates up (I think that helps us, but who knows how such things work?).

In other news, the English have gone stoopid. They seem to think the are favourites for the Ashes. Even my (Welsh) boss is giving me grief. Can't wait to see the country have a collective embalism after they lose the first test.

Word to the Aussie Dollar (money, money, money)