I have a new burrow!!

A quick phone call to the agent this morning to hurry them along ask when I would be likely to find out yes or no on this little place had me talking to someone who really had no idea what was happening, and told me I would find out "in the next couple of days"... Oh well.
But not half an hour later the real agent rang back to let me know that I have been approved! Whether or not one hand knows what the other is doing, I'm quite happy to take what this hand says. Now, to go to the bank and get a cheque, head over to the office in Woden (why its that far away I dont know) and sign a lease!
There is another person nesting in the place still at the moment, so I will be able to move in from the fifteenth of December. That's not too far away!

I may have found a new burrow. Handed in an application form today to the estate agent dealing with the lovely little flat I found yesterday, and they seemed to think that I'd find out in the next day or so...
Can't wait, hopefully for them to tell me Yes.

Dad is up here for a couple of days too, so today we spent a little bit of time doing the touristy thing and went and sat in the public gallery at Parliament House during question time and listened to our elected representatives call each other galahs and wombats (yay, wombats!) for an hour or so.

Cross your fingers, toes (and other appendages if you wish) for me, and with a bit of luck I'll be able to update you tomorrow with good news.

After not being able to do much in the way of house hunting on the weekend, I was really looking forward to getting back into it today. I did try and see one place on Saturday morning, but the estate agent didn't show up, so I think I will give that place a miss. Peering through the windows it didnt look like much either, so I was happy to leave it at that.
Back with computer access at the Accommodation building (that no one lives in) I was able to line up three more places to look at today. The first one, unfortunately, was a dark, pokey little hole in the wall with mould growing everywhere.
Pass.
However right across the road at the second place of the day, I was very very impressed. Ten minutes drive from ANU, just around the corner from the Manuka shops, the cleanest place I've looked at so far and very cheap - including a microwave, stove and fridge!
I'll take it! (Now, here's hoping they don't give it to someone else instead!)

There are a few more photos up in Australian Scenery, just a couple of around Canberra from the weekend.