New House

I have had an interesting time recently looking at houses in Australia!  Not in person.   Just over 12 years ago when I got my first PC I agreed to write to a lady my own age who lived in New South Wales via email.  We exchanged greetings
and family news and found our notes becoming more frequent as we discovered more about each others lives, family and countries.  About three years ago after attending a language school in Italy (she now writes to an Italian lady in Italian!) her flight back to Oz had a stop over of 1 night in London so my dear one and I went down to meet up with her.   We recognised each other immediately and were in each others company for about 8 hours or so and never once stopped talking.   However I digress.   This year she decided to sell her small house on the coast and help her son and his wife buy a bigger property with a granny flat for her; so I have spent a long time on the computer looking at the houses they were looking at and enthused when the sale was going well and comforted her when they were beaten at the post.   However, this week it looks as though a sale is going through on a wonderful house with pool in Hornsby Heights, on the outskirts of Sydney.   I feel so thrilled you might think I had bought the house and was about to move but sadly half a million pounds is beyond my pocket and Oz is a very long way for an Anglophile.