It’s finally arrived. Our moving house week. It’s been a long time comin’ and has all but broken Dawn who has been working on renovating, painting, packing and disposing for 18 months and has forgotten what it’s like to have a life and is looking forward to finding out again. I genuinely think this whole process has given her PTSD
We’ve given away and sold about 35% of what was here, more if you include the records. Weirdly because most of it was stored in the attic/studio/shed/ under beds, it barely seems anything but it is, so much so, the only big items to be moved are the sofa, beds and white goods(which are black).
A lot of things went to the community shed to be used in all sorts of projects which at least feels good. If you’re in the house clearance business, you must get access to lots of goodies that people just want rid of. I’ve certainly bought lots of house clearance album collections over the years.
Because we move on Wednesday, with all our stuff being delivered on Thursday, we’re taking the week off the t-shirts and writing to give ourselves breathing space to uproot our lives to the opposite coast.
Of course then we’ll have to start finding places to put everything. It’s uncarpeted so we’ve ordered carpeting for the whole house which Dawn will fit. I’ve said we should get someone in to do it but Dawn likes to do such things herself, even though it’s more work. I’ve said she’s just making things hard on herself but she won’t listen.
Obviously it is inevitably a time for reflection of the 6 years we’ve been here, but I’m trying not to because you just end up feeling melancholic about time passing, especially when you’ve had a serious health episode. It’s not that we don’t want to do anything, just that we need to be realistic and pay for help when we need it.
So you won’t hear from me for a while with the quiz or newsletters while we get established in Montrose and pay some strong men £1200 to hump all our stuff over there. Wish us luck.
See you on the other side.
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6 comments
Good luck in your new home in Montrose. My son lives just down the road from you in Arbroath so I am well acquaint with your new surroundings. Its a beautiful part of Scotland. I actually live 16 miles south of John O’Groats. Love reading your blogs and man oh man are those quizzes difficult!!
I sincerly hope you will enjoy your new life in Montrose. With some good music and a loving partner things will go easy.
Struggle with your rock quiz every week. I’m lucky If I get 1 or 2 correct answers. But it’s fun anyhow.
Best wishes from Huddinge outside Stockholm.
Mikael
Good luck with the move and I hope you settle into the new house ok..
Good luck, and I hope the move goes really well. Best wishes for the future.
Wishing you all the very best . You honest observations I have found illuminating and quite moving sometimes . Good luck folks may the processs be as smooth as it can be.