Category: the move

Day 327 – Boxes upon boxes

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It’s been a very busy day, but we are surprisingly close to finishing our unpacking.

Another 15 or 20 boxes were unpacked today, and many are already on their way to being reused at another unconnected move nearby.

The kitchen cupboards have now been allocated and I’ve almost remembered where the mugs are for my morning coffee.

I unpacked my clothes and I can’t wait to get rid of some to a good cause in the very near future.

A nice man called Simon came round and got our weird (but hugely effective) internet setup set up.

A nice man called Ben came round and got rid of several (or more) European Paper Wasp nests from around the house and garden.

I’d recommend both of them for those sort of specific tasks.
(Simon does CCTV as well; Ben does bees as well.)

The beagle got closer to sleeping through in the kitchen (her usual chosen bedtime spot) last night and only woke me up [weep] three times. I are a bit broken.

High hopes for a full night tonight.

My study is still peach. So very peach.

Day 324 – The Last Night

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And so it’s come to this.

Yesterday was our last night in what has been our home for the past 15½ years.
The home into which we brought our newborn children from the hospital.
The only family home they have ever known, and which has seen them grow into young adults.
The home which we have worked so hard upon to make our own, with all our creature comforts.

And now we move on.

The new place is all about Location, Location, Location.
While it’s perfectly livable, it needs work, it needs updating, it needs all our creature comforts.
It’s going to be a huge amount of effort to get it to where we want it.
But we have done this before and we will do it again.
And this time, we have a better, safer, bigger place to do it in.

We’ve cleaned it top to bottom yesterday, and moved some of our stuff in. Today, the team with the big lorry are coming around to move the bulk of our stuff, and on Monday, we hand over the keys to this place to another young family, who I hope will enjoy our home as their home for years to come.

We’ve been too busy to concentrate on our feelings for the past few days.
Once the pressure is off (this evening?), it’s going to be interesting to see what comes out.

I will likely accompany whatever it is with some brandy.
Safety first for the first night in our new place.

Day 322 – Keys?

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OK. I’m writing this yesterday, so that today can be used for completing the packing and beginning the next stage of the moving process.

There is a chance that we might be able to pick up the keys to the new place today. We can’t officially move in, but we might be able to dump some stuff in the garage where it will remain for the next 10 years or more.

Seriously though, anything we can remove from this house and put into the other house before the upcoming chaos of the real move day will be of great help, and so I’m hopeful that things work out well today and we can (quite literally) spread the load a little.

I’ll be in touch.

Day 320 – The last…

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We’re definitely down to the stage where just about everything we do in the current house will also be the last time that we do it in the current house.

I’ve already survived my last Monday morning in the current house and I’m halfway there on making it successfully through my last whole Tuesday in the current house.

Fingers crossed.

These are minor milestones, though. Yesterday evening was a big one:

The last braai in the current house. On the big braai. Our third in three nights (braais, not houses) because we can.

There were a few emotional moments as the final burger patty came off the grid and was paired with some blue cheese and a teaspoon of blueberry jelly before being devoured. The tears rolling down my cheeks serendipitously added a delicious saltiness.

There is no big braai at the new place (yet), but I do have this, of course. And I’m sure that its first usage at the new place will bring much joy.

 

Day 319 – (Un)fair warning

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We move house in very few days. If you’ve ever moved house, you may know how chaotic everything is likely to be right now. And you’d be right.

I have a long list of jobs to sort and I’m very much on a deadline.

Normally, before I get into situations such as these (especially the ones I’ve know are coming from waaaaay off), I’d write some blog posts in advance, while I still have some free time.

I appear to have missed that opportunity on this particular occasion.

So, fair warning (or at least it would have been last week): I’m going to be squeezing blog posts in here and there (but usually here) as and when I can over the next few days.

Thanks for your mails, people who have mailed. I will get there. Almost certainly.