I can't write much. I've got one hand, feeding the owl with the other and every couple of minutes she tightens up like a prawn and blasts her nappy with another round of poo. Where does it all come from?

But I had to let out my private excitement somewhere! Yesterday Obi was sorting paperwork to make a filing system for us and pushing me to break our term deposit in Canada and bring that money here because the interest rates over here are very nice. Anyway I'm like "No. There's no point. We'll lose money if we break the term deposit, we'll lose money to bring it here and then we'll pay again when we take it back to Canada to buy our house" and he's like "I don't know if I'll want to buy a house in Canada..."

Then goes on to tell me for the last few months he's been considering the option of buying here!!! He's like "I suppose my family wouldn't like it much..."

It's hard now not to get my hopes up. And I can't tell anyone here or they might get theirs up. But somehow staying in Australia has become an option when it never has been before. I think I might burst!