We will be moving on the 1st of January, to heir new house at East View, Saskatoon ... we don't have a postcode yet, but we'll find that out shortly. (Found it S7J 3J2).

We saw the house a couple of weeks ago. It's a semi detached house, with 3 bedrooms, a family room, and a basement. It has a good sized back garden (back yard), and it looks as if it has had several families in it over the years. It looks like a fabulous place, and it's in a really nice area, close to Callum's school. Chris already has a corner of the basement picked out for starting his next homebrew project.

Eda and Sam will be over when we get the keys, so hopefully between all of us, it shouldn't take long to get moved in. With the size of the rooms, there will be space enough for us to have a space for guests, which is exactly what we were after.

So, if you want to come over to sunny Saskatoon, we've got the space starting from the New Year, so just let us know when you're coming. We're all really looking forward to seeing you!

Our stuff has arrived! It only took 5 weeks, which puts it about 3 weeks ahead of the expected arrival date. At the moment, we are still living in Cameron's house, so we have put it all in storage. The kids are delighted to be able to get to their books and toys again. We should be able to move all of our stuff into our new house at the beginning of January. At the moment, we are really looking forward to having our own space and our own beds. All we need now is some warm winter douvets!

Chris has discovered a few people at work who go climbing at a local climbing gym. He has been several times now, and took Callum with him the last time. Callum is a little unsure of heights, but was doing really well. They have a variety of routes, from incredibly easy, to far too hard for Chris.

Chris has been playing a game with some other climbers in the bouldering room, called 'Add a hold'. This involves the first person getting on the wall, and moving one hand to a new hold. The next person then gets on and follows the same holds as he previous person, then adds another hold, so each time the next person adds one more hold. When no-one can repeat what the last successful person did, then you have a winner.

Like everything else in Saskatoon, it only takes about 10 to 15 minutes to get to the gym after work, so Chris can go straight form the office, climb for an hour or so, and still be home earlier than when he was working in London.

The CTO in Chris' company also goes climbing, and he has an 8 year old that likes climbing too, so we are hoping they can get together on a weekend soon and go as a group.

Our container was released by customs on Tuesday and arrived at the storage locker today. As they filled the locker we nabbed three boxes, before it all got packed in the lock up. (We are staying at one of my hubbie's workmates until 1st Jan when we rent out own place, I cannot wait, but it does mean all our stuff has to be stored until then). My daughter opened the first box (marked books) when we got home to the yell of HARRY, as she pulled out a Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs book. The other one of books was not so good, but my son and I are really getting into the first Perry Jackson book that was in there. The third is christmas decorations but we will open them when we get a tree.

About ten days ago we got a letter through from our mortgage company saying that now our mortgage was out of the fixed rate period, and because our house was on a letting rate our mortgage was going up to 8.09% from the december payment. Even if our house was being rented out on top of agency fees that did not leave anything really for wear and tear let alone the work we had just done to make it acceptable to be rented. We got conformation today that we had managed to get a new morgage about 3% lower, which is a major relief.

I went to see Twilight last night with my hubbie's boss, her sister and Devan also from Point 2. I will not spoil it for anyone in England by saying what I think. But I am looking forward to seeing it again with my sister for my birthday present when she comes over to visit.

On the attempt to make our house look more inviting my sister had kindly organised new carpets to be laid upstairs. When they came round and quoted they said the wardrobes would be not hassle, but when they came to lay the carpet they said they were fitted wardrobes and so fitted round them. Well they now are, and when we return home we can get new carpets like Grandpa's. The kind where you drop something and spend the next five minutes trying to find it.

I sent Chris off after work to the edge of Saskatoon to sort out a storage place for our stuff that goes through customs tomorrow. It has to be him as he is the only one with Saskatoon identification (ie one driving licence). He also had to take a lock so we could lock up the unit.