Demolition - Bye, Bye 8 Kent Road

We move a lot.

Houses, countries, continents,

they come and go.

We make a real mess of our friends' address books!

We have lived in five houses in Melbourne, so far...

My favourite house

8 Kent Road, Surrey Hills

is just being demolished.

We moved in, in March and out in August that same year.

That's corporate ex-pat life for you.

Companies say jump, and you do!

I never even swam in the swimming pool...

I had my 40th Birthday party at that house.

It was a 'Rags to Riches' themed party,

We couldn't believe our luck to be living in this grand old house.

Of course we were only renting.

I loved that house.

Fun memories.

We had a flag pole

and a tennis court

and a bucket that we put on the kitchen table

to catch the water that dripped in through the roof when it rained!

I loved the garden too,

it was like a botanical garden.

Someone loved that garden once.

We had a giant monkey puzzle tree,

hundreds of beautiful plants,

statues and a fountain!

'If you want something badly enough, you will get it' - wrong!

I slept with a photo of the house beside my bed

when it came up for sale a few years ago.

If only I had an spare $3,000,000

we could have bought it.

I wonder how many houses they will build there now?

Bye, bye 8 Kent Road

We will miss you

Thanks for the memories!

Linking with Alphabe Thursday

D is for Demolition

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