Author Archives: Bill Hutchison

A New Addition to our House

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Jessica Lee Hutchison was born on April 12, 2006 at 10:03 am. She weighed 7lbs 13.5oz (3.54kg) and was 50cm long.

Tamara and Jessica are still at the hospital for a bit longer. We went into Townsville Hospital at 4:30 am and less than 6-hours later Jessica was born.

 

Tamara was amazing and is looking fantastic (as you can see above).

Caleb is enjoying his role as a new brother and absolutely loves Jessica.

After visiting with Jessica and Tamara, Bill and Caleb headed out to dinner and sleep.

You can check out more of the photos that we took on the day in the Jessica Photo Gallery, which will continue to grow as she does.

Young and Naive

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I reckon that this is exactly what the realtor representing Castletown was thinking when we started talking to us about buying our old house (see The Street that Castletown Bought for more details).

In the weekend newspaper they listed some of the houses around Townsville that had been sold for over $500,000 in the last three years (we weren’t on that list). We discovered that our neighbour, who had the exact same land size as us, had sold his house for nearly double what we had sold our for. This was despite the realestate agent trying to convice us up to the last minute that we wouldn’t even get what we wanted for our house.

I am certainly not ungrateful that we have been able to move closer to our friends and work, and that we are able to renovate our new house. It has been an amazing testimony to us of God’s faithfulness. What it does do is leave me with a strong distrust of realestate agents whose motivating factor is only $$$, despite stating otherwise…

Where did the house go?

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Last year is when Tamara and I made the big move and sold our old house to Castletown, The Street that Castletown Bought. In January this year we moved out of the old house and into our new house which has been the subject for the majority of this site. We would still drive past our old empty house every weekend when we went shopping, but this week was a bit different.

Our Old House before we moved out
Our old house

This week when I drove past our old house it wasn’t there!

Where our old house was before relocation

Where we used to park our car before the house was relocated
Where is it now?

I think that Caleb was a bit confused as well since he knew that was where our old house used to be, but all of a sudden it was gone!

It is the first of the twenty or so houses that Castletown purchased that has been moved or destroyed. It looks like a lot of the other houses have been prepared for removal, but none have gone yet. An article in the weekend paper said that Castletown plans to have the renovations completed by the end of the year, so I guess that they will getting rid of the other houses soon.

Find a Trademan Anywhere in Australia with BANGitUP Australia

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I just came across a service that appears to make it easy to find a builder or tradesman anywhere in Australia from one web-site. You write down your details, and a few details of the job, and the request is then sent by SMS to various contractors around your area.

The first three tradesmen to respond are then put on a list for you to look at and you can then contact them directly to organize a face to face meeting. None of your details are sent to them, it’s up to you if you contact them or not. The details that you get on the list includes references, which can be helpful.

They claim to have over 40,000 tradesmen in their database, so it looks like it should cover a lot of areas, and best of all, it looks like it’s free!

You can check out at BANGitUP Australia – Trade Select.