It happened very suddenly in the end: Contracts exchanged on Tuesday and Completion next week. Incredibly exciting and a huge relief, for I was beginning to fear that the whole thing would fall through.
Numerous boxes arrived that same day – and I am now in the process of putting them together and filling them with my possessions. A back-breaking task, but an essential part of dismantling one home in order to create another.
Yesterday, I trawled the shops – both here and in Street Village – to find all those items I will need, and (much more fun!) to do the rest of the Christmas shopping.
Once I have moved, there will be a couple of weeks in which I will have no access to the Internet. An ill wind, I feel, since I am an obsessive personality and quite capable of churning out three or more blog posts a day. A break will, I suspect, revitalise me and refresh my writing.
Back to the packing now!
I will blog as and when I can over the next week or so…
Yay!
Congratulations. Hope you don’t have too many books. 🙂
I busted my butt with them the last time I moved.
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Many thanks! Yes, just the odd book! xxx
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Less backbreaking, then.
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Just the two vertebrae creaking rather than the whole set collapsing like a step ladder in a gale! xxx
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What an fantastic description. Love it. ❤
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Finally! Congratulations Ali, hope you find all the peace and joy in the world!
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Many thanks. I am exhausted but know I’ll soon be moving! xxx
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Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie.
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Thank you! xxx
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Wonderful, Ali. Great to hear it all came to fruition. xx
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Thanks so much, Steve – such a relief! xxx
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So very excited for you, Ali! xoxo ❤
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Thank you, Alethea. It is a huge relief. xxx
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I can imagine. Here’s to a glorious rebirth! ❤
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Yay! Can’t wait! xxx
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GOOD LUCK WITH IT ALL ALI 👍😃❤
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Aw, thanks, Chris. Still packing…xxx
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When you unpack at the new place you’ll rediscover treasures you’d forgotten Ali ❤
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Yes, I am sure you are right, Chris – and, I suspect, I will find there are things I have no further use for! xxx
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Oh I am so very pleased for you! A new beginning away from the naysayers and diatribe-lovers! Such good, good luck with the move and may your new home give you peace!
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Bless you, Suze. It hasn’t really hit me yet – but it will! xxx
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 ❤ xxx
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Thanks, Sue. Not long now! xxx
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I’ll polish up the glasses 🙂 xxx
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Yes, get polishing, Sue – and remember, there will always be a bed for you down yur! xxx
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Eh up our Morris, knew the lass would sort it in the end..(‘course I’d have done the whole thing in a weekend, and all the decorating, probably a new roof as well… mumble mumble).
PS was sat under the Tor yesterday gassing with the locals in the Blue Note. Lovely atmosphere. xxxxx
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Oh, how delightful, Ted: I immediately felt as if I were there! Soon, soon…xxx
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Was there again today! I’ll soon start looking for you! Xx
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Wow! I won’t be hard to spot being, as a friend of mine put it, high viz! xxx
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I plan to move again end of October
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Oh my goodness! Best of luck with it, Simon.
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no it’s fine – purely through choce; don’t like the massively expensive place i am renting
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Ah, very sensible, Simon. Know the feeling from my renting days long ago.
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1300 a month is a lot to pay for somewhere you dont like
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