Our house, palm trees in the garden and backing onto the bush!

Thanks to mum, dad and Kate for the gorgeous flowers waiting for us by the front door!!! That was a surprise!!
No houses here, or indeed in Australia, seem to have letterboxes, they all have mailboxes outside at the edge of the road. I suppose the time and injuries these boxes save the postman must be quite substantial, but to me they are a bit of a pain because you have to keep checking them on the off-chance something is in them. I think a good invention would be to have a little flag on them to say whether there is some mail in, but maybe that’s just laziness?!