Much has happened in that time… the house is sold; the apartment has been purchased (well, not quite until the completion, but…) and we move in just over a week’s time (next Tuesday 24th – with packers in on Monday 23rd). All the outstanding matters have either been dealt with or ‘deferred’. I’ve been back to Deanery Road while the electrician was there but, as far as our house is concerned, George has only visited once – and he put in an offer on the basis of his one and only visit (and has indicated that he’s been too busy to come round for a drink or check on stuff etc… which seems a little strange).
Hannah, Cormac, Roz, Simon, Claire and Geraint invited us to a mini street party last Saturday evening to say goodbye and to wish us well (which was very lovely of them).
We’ve managed to get rid of a whole stack of ‘stuff’ – including the dining table, four dining chairs, two throne chairs, well over 30 picture frames and a whole range of odds and ends. The pavement outside our house has been full with collect-for-free goods for the past few weeks. This week will see the last of our rubbish-to-the-tip-trips (‘everything must go’!).
The really scary thing is that there are absolutely ‘piles of stuff’ that we’re proposing to take with us – boxes and boxes of things (not to mention all the plants and pots Moira has earmarked for our balcony!!). Depressingly, I think the boxed stuff will all end up cluttering up the two bedrooms – I don’t think they’ll be much room for manoeuvring around the beds.
Ru and family were on holiday last week and so there’s a AWFUL lot of clearing for her to do this week to vacate her studio! I feel very sorry for her (and guilty too)… so much stuff and not enough space in her new studio at BV.
Image: a couple of photographs illustrating some of the stuff we’re supposed to be taking with us!
