Moving Stories... The Last Few Days...
Yep, it's not really Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday (as you might have guessed if you'd spotted a glut of posts all arriving at one time) - It's Thursday, and I'm abusing the computer at work in order to get caught up with some blogging and keep you posted on how things are going / have gone...
So, we'll start with Monday - D Day...
And it was utter chaos! People coming to take furniture away... then coming back to take furniture I was keeping down to the new house... family coming to collect boxes of ornaments and / or books to be stored and sorted out later... then several runs with boxes and bags of all the stuff that was coming with me...
Got down to the new house myself for the first time about 9pm, and gasped in horror at what I found...
I'd reserved a bed and a sofa and chair from the council Furniture Store (donated items which are then done up and available to buy at very reasonable prices) - and the base of my bed had been delivered... but no mattress or headboard! And the sofa and chair hadn't been delivered at all!
Now, bear in mind that this is after 9o'clock at night, and absolutely nothing can be done about it!
Anyway... back up to the old house for the last run to grab the last couple of things - and the cats! Now, Harriet had appeared about 6pm, and we'd trapped her inside, but Minnie only turned up at 10pm when we arrived back. Managed to chuck them both in cat carriers and zoom down to the new house.
Spent half the night on the living room floor, surrounded by boxes, before aches and pains forced me into a kind of half-sitting, half-sprawled arrangement in my computer chair for the rest of the night, huddled under a single duvet, with 2 terrified and seriously freaked-out cats around me!
Not a lot of sleep was had, that's for sure.
Oh, and I've had to have my poor cockatiel, Paddy, re-homed... sob.
So, we'll start with Monday - D Day...
And it was utter chaos! People coming to take furniture away... then coming back to take furniture I was keeping down to the new house... family coming to collect boxes of ornaments and / or books to be stored and sorted out later... then several runs with boxes and bags of all the stuff that was coming with me...
Got down to the new house myself for the first time about 9pm, and gasped in horror at what I found...
I'd reserved a bed and a sofa and chair from the council Furniture Store (donated items which are then done up and available to buy at very reasonable prices) - and the base of my bed had been delivered... but no mattress or headboard! And the sofa and chair hadn't been delivered at all!
Now, bear in mind that this is after 9o'clock at night, and absolutely nothing can be done about it!
Anyway... back up to the old house for the last run to grab the last couple of things - and the cats! Now, Harriet had appeared about 6pm, and we'd trapped her inside, but Minnie only turned up at 10pm when we arrived back. Managed to chuck them both in cat carriers and zoom down to the new house.
Spent half the night on the living room floor, surrounded by boxes, before aches and pains forced me into a kind of half-sitting, half-sprawled arrangement in my computer chair for the rest of the night, huddled under a single duvet, with 2 terrified and seriously freaked-out cats around me!
Not a lot of sleep was had, that's for sure.
Oh, and I've had to have my poor cockatiel, Paddy, re-homed... sob.
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