Our new car

Our new car is finally registered in our name - after much running around and paperwork.

My husband wrote this as his Facebook status in the middle of the running around we've done since we bought the car nearly three weeks ago:

David now has the next piece of paper so that he can email it to an office who will send him a pile of pieces of paper that he has to take to another office so that he can get a piece of paper and two metal plates that says he owns the car (which he then has to email to another office so that the insurance company will be nice to him). Adult life is fun...

As you can see from the photos, our parking space is a bit squeezy. The width is okay until you realise that we also have to park five bikes. Hence we decided to go for a vehicle that has not only has potential leg room for growing boys, but sliding doors on the side to aid getting in and out in small places.

The third photo includes our front door (which is a bit weathered) and the back of my trusty bike.

At the rear of the car is our trusty "shed". Australians will laugh - a shed? Yes, actually more like an outside cupboard. Handy for storing bike pump, gardening supplies etc.

This last photo is taken the other direction across our front door showing the rest of the front of our house. We stow the two smallest bikes in this little nook.

We're happy to have to car organised. It enables us to go as a family to places that are harder to get to by train, like some shops which are further away from a station. And especially to go on holidays.

However we won't be using the car anywhere near as much as we did in Australia where we drove more than 20 000 km in just one year!