I keep thinking I should post something here, and then I can't decide what, and so I don't, and this is a problem that really is only going to get worse, so perhaps I shall just do random bullet points.

• House building work is still not complete, because the builders working on the bathroom have gone off to outdoor jobs while the weather is good. ( Read more... )

That feeling when you've removed 9999 rusty flat-head screws (because of course they are flat-head, so harder to get a grip on) and you prod the thing that should now be easy to remove and realise glumly that it must be either nailed or glued.  Probably both ( Read more... )

Yes, in the middle of a pandemic, we moved to a place that we had each visited for a few hours on one occasion. At the moment, the only people with their normal furniture are the dogs. We brought the garden chairs on the grounds that being aluminium and plastic, they are very light so were easy to get in and out of the van Pp hired.  Here he is ( Read more... )

Definitely not moving before Christmas now.  But!  we do at long last have a planned completion date: 8th Jan.  So we can stop thinking about that until after New Year now ( Read more... )

And frankly I am starting to think it's not going to happen before Christmas now, but hey.  Our solicitor vanished on us. A new solicitor respawned, but we get the impression that the new solicitor is doing the work of two (or maybe six, who knows) and though we keep getting emails saying things will be done by.... they are not ( Read more... )

I need to write this down to get it out of my head.
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I don't seem to have posted for ages. A month ago, we had just put our house up for sale : this Friday, the painters finished painting it, and today we have (I hope!) sold it. It does look good with the sun shining and the paint all new!


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We have put many things in boxes in the spare space of kindly relatives! We have decluttered as if our lives depended on it, and also scrubbed for days, and painted things if the scrubbing wore the paint off. The house may possibly have been this clean in the past, but not for a very long time ( Read more... )

WELL. It has been a rather frantic few weeks. The Shop on the Borderlands has been growing like a particularly enthusiastic weed, and, already pushed for space, we decided that we were really going to have to look at Doing Something. We now have stock in all the bedrooms, tucked under beds and packed onto shelves, and getting stuff up and down the ( Read more... )