Thanks guys.

Yes Lulu, the thing is last time I did most of the parenting anyway cos DP is a shiftworker so is only home in the evenings one week out of two. And barely here on the weekends because he's working. And you know what they say about if the mummy isn't happy then the rest of the family ain't happy. Agree about the pub.

Nai - the six month thing is really optimistic. That's if it all went swimmingly which it isn't at the moment. We've had everyone give us the runaround. So now we have to go back to square one and get an engineer and possibly a geological report ($5K for that alone) done and then get council approvals.

And I've already been unhappy in this house for so, so long. So I couldn't take another three months quite frankly.