Moving house seems like a lifetime ago!!!
Where shall I start.... The move went very well!!! We were all about done by Friday 23rd which left me some time to do some baking and them prep for Christmas day.
I still have a few things to do online - driving licence, passport etc etc TV licence Ebay etc etc.
The washingachine attachment is leaking so no washer. There is a slight leak in the toilet - where the clean water flushes down to the pan so not a perm leak and I cannot have hot water and heating on at the same time. Other than that all good. And I don't need to worry about getting them fixed!!! Yipee!!!
House insurance and car insurance have gone up. Car insurance significantly - by £17 per month!!! And £3 per month for contents insurance. I am in credit by £120 to gas/elec. I shall save this for the forthcoming winter bill.
I should get land line, internet connexcted on Friday at some point.... we shall see!!!
I think I may in sections as this woudl be a very long post otherwise!
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
So far so good.... Wish me luck.....
We are on track.... I think. All jobs done, packing done bar the last things you need - kettle bed linen, clothes that are still drying on the radiators/clothes horse.
I need to take readings for gas and electricity tomorrow and ring the solicitors re keys etc etc
Biggles has offered to remain behind and give a final hoover round etc etc and a check that nothing has been left behind. Bless hime
Oh yes have one set of curtains to take down tomorrow and a lamp shade to remove.
Once I am in will do the following:
Water
Council tax
post office - redirection
banks
tv licence
driving licence
doctors/dentist
mums bank details etc etc - I am power of attorney for her including tax man!!! and letting agent for her house that she rents out
Mums Care home
Weeny girls bank details
Credit cards - bah bah bah
Survey companies
ebay/amazon
bt
insurance companies - life to cancel/rearrange as no house to pay for, ad contents
Car insurance
Can you think of anything else????
Saturday I shall shop for food for christmas/pick up what I need.
Hopefully I have the following arranged for Thursday
Cooker - delivery
Garden box delivery
Plumber
Joiner
TV Aeriel Chap - Sky are evil!!! They cut your cables to your aeriel when they remove Sky to encourage you to sign up for a TV package you don't want.
I need to purchase:
Cat Flap - absolutely essential for pusskins
Cutain poles x 5 - required to stop heat from escaping!
Wardrobe storage clothes rail thing - only one for me. otherwise it will be chaos!
Lamp Shade - paper ones - 3 I think - will check- they are cheap and cheerful
Also I will be able to use Biggles Dongle wotsit!!! No electrical death however I will miss BT vision and being able to record.
I will acquire a carpet for my bedroom in time adn other items via Freecycle!
I need to take readings for gas and electricity tomorrow and ring the solicitors re keys etc etc
Biggles has offered to remain behind and give a final hoover round etc etc and a check that nothing has been left behind. Bless hime
Oh yes have one set of curtains to take down tomorrow and a lamp shade to remove.
Once I am in will do the following:
Water
Council tax
post office - redirection
banks
tv licence
driving licence
doctors/dentist
mums bank details etc etc - I am power of attorney for her including tax man!!! and letting agent for her house that she rents out
Mums Care home
Weeny girls bank details
Credit cards - bah bah bah
Survey companies
ebay/amazon
bt
insurance companies - life to cancel/rearrange as no house to pay for, ad contents
Car insurance
Can you think of anything else????
Saturday I shall shop for food for christmas/pick up what I need.
Hopefully I have the following arranged for Thursday
Cooker - delivery
Garden box delivery
Plumber
Joiner
TV Aeriel Chap - Sky are evil!!! They cut your cables to your aeriel when they remove Sky to encourage you to sign up for a TV package you don't want.
I need to purchase:
Cat Flap - absolutely essential for pusskins
Cutain poles x 5 - required to stop heat from escaping!
Wardrobe storage clothes rail thing - only one for me. otherwise it will be chaos!
Lamp Shade - paper ones - 3 I think - will check- they are cheap and cheerful
Also I will be able to use Biggles Dongle wotsit!!! No electrical death however I will miss BT vision and being able to record.
I will acquire a carpet for my bedroom in time adn other items via Freecycle!
Monday, 19 December 2011
Fingers crossed for Solstice fun
Might happen- might not see how it goes. We still have our fire wood and weeny would love a fire and would love to bake and sing her song.
Will hopefully be able to access a pc somehow and let you know how we get on.
Tommorow will be my last post for a while!!
Eeek!
Will hopefully be able to access a pc somehow and let you know how we get on.
Tommorow will be my last post for a while!!
Eeek!
Penultimate night in my wee hoose!
The packing is on track.
I have the outhouse/shed to sort tomorrow and a redcurrant bush to pop into a large pot and also some small fern things. I need to sort the garden really I do.
I have cleaning of the bathroom and litchen cupboards, washing, my book case to decant, plates and other bits to find homes for. Oh and curtains to take down.
We are taking the majority of the freezer food to Biggles house tomorrow so I can defrost the freezer. Will also move most of the fridge contents.
I am quite pensive.... This house meant a lot to me. It was my first permanent home- was supposed to be. Somewhere I could put down roots and mellow a while... maybe not forever and ever but it may well have been... somewhere I could invest time in the garden, neighbours etc.
Halloweens have been lovely as have the two Christmases I have spent here and the two summers with barbecues, flower growing. It is close to a beautiful part of the coast line.
The new house was too good to turn down but its not ours ( Weeny girl and I's) We will make it nice but I'm still searching as I know this isn't where the story ends. Where that is who knows....
Its lovely for Weeny here. There is a play park at the bottom of the street, it is very safe, few cars lots of other kids and surrounded by families. The new place is very nice but not the quite as nice. Its the end of town I would have preferred not to be in but such is life.
Where we go to next and if we ever own again will be decided on at a later date.... am still keen on Durham - not the city of Durham but the further out places like Crook or the villages. I will miss the coast but I can cope. Weeny would miss it dreadfully she loves the beach with a passion though there are always holidays!
Ho hum xxx
I have the outhouse/shed to sort tomorrow and a redcurrant bush to pop into a large pot and also some small fern things. I need to sort the garden really I do.
I have cleaning of the bathroom and litchen cupboards, washing, my book case to decant, plates and other bits to find homes for. Oh and curtains to take down.
We are taking the majority of the freezer food to Biggles house tomorrow so I can defrost the freezer. Will also move most of the fridge contents.
I am quite pensive.... This house meant a lot to me. It was my first permanent home- was supposed to be. Somewhere I could put down roots and mellow a while... maybe not forever and ever but it may well have been... somewhere I could invest time in the garden, neighbours etc.
Halloweens have been lovely as have the two Christmases I have spent here and the two summers with barbecues, flower growing. It is close to a beautiful part of the coast line.
The new house was too good to turn down but its not ours ( Weeny girl and I's) We will make it nice but I'm still searching as I know this isn't where the story ends. Where that is who knows....
Its lovely for Weeny here. There is a play park at the bottom of the street, it is very safe, few cars lots of other kids and surrounded by families. The new place is very nice but not the quite as nice. Its the end of town I would have preferred not to be in but such is life.
Where we go to next and if we ever own again will be decided on at a later date.... am still keen on Durham - not the city of Durham but the further out places like Crook or the villages. I will miss the coast but I can cope. Weeny would miss it dreadfully she loves the beach with a passion though there are always holidays!
Ho hum xxx
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Last christmas....... or was it the one before that.....
Taking a break from the chaos that is moving house.... am pondering my all time favourite christmasses
Hmmm in no order of prefererence - difficult to decide as they are all different.
1. Prague - Opera in Christmas day to see la traviata, nothing stops in Prague over christmas but it is very christmassy in a lower key less commercial way. Ate Carp on Christmas eve - traditional Czech meal 2004
2. Brunei - - tropical - fabulous- heat- islamic - minimal christmas! Done this one three times! Got a tan! 1993, 2006, 2009
3. Last yeas - Weeny girls first I get CHRISTMAS - so lovely for that and a day spent in matfen Hall on Boxing day with Biggles was lovely - scrabble by an open fire getting tiddly or tiddlier on irish coffee....2010
4. Childhood ones - the bones that are a bit blurry now with mum and dad still alive and well before Dad got ill. The ill ones don't count 1972-1984ish
5.The Christmas that never was.........2007
I had planned a wonderful christmas for myself and plan to do it one day.
As a non christmassy person and hating the commercialism I decided to escape to the Lakes with my then Labrador - booked way in advance - cottage, books, food and dog for a week and able to explore.....peace, beauty, fires, mince pies... ahhhhh
Anyhoo found out I was pregnant and would be 38 weeks by then so a remote cottage on my own was not to be.............. one day however when I have a dog again.... I couldn't sgo so cancelled but buggered off to the Isle of Wight to catch up with my sister and family who were visiting her inlaws and got myself a lovely apartment for four nights. Poor dog couldn't come however so went into kennels.
(I couldn't bear to be with ex's family and have managed to never spend a christmas with them - to much focus on money, gluttony andd self self self. - and they have lots of outside lights at christmas....... how horrendous. Wreaths yes - but come on! electricity - wasteful environment never thought of, splash the cash obviously!!!
Any favourite christmases???
PS Als done one in Tunisia - last minute - not great, travelled on Christmas day, spent time drinking and smoking and checking out old and ancient ruins - Not as islamic as I would have liked - ie they had decorations!!! bleurgh!!!
Hmmm in no order of prefererence - difficult to decide as they are all different.
1. Prague - Opera in Christmas day to see la traviata, nothing stops in Prague over christmas but it is very christmassy in a lower key less commercial way. Ate Carp on Christmas eve - traditional Czech meal 2004
2. Brunei - - tropical - fabulous- heat- islamic - minimal christmas! Done this one three times! Got a tan! 1993, 2006, 2009
3. Last yeas - Weeny girls first I get CHRISTMAS - so lovely for that and a day spent in matfen Hall on Boxing day with Biggles was lovely - scrabble by an open fire getting tiddly or tiddlier on irish coffee....2010
4. Childhood ones - the bones that are a bit blurry now with mum and dad still alive and well before Dad got ill. The ill ones don't count 1972-1984ish
5.The Christmas that never was.........2007
I had planned a wonderful christmas for myself and plan to do it one day.
As a non christmassy person and hating the commercialism I decided to escape to the Lakes with my then Labrador - booked way in advance - cottage, books, food and dog for a week and able to explore.....peace, beauty, fires, mince pies... ahhhhh
Anyhoo found out I was pregnant and would be 38 weeks by then so a remote cottage on my own was not to be.............. one day however when I have a dog again.... I couldn't sgo so cancelled but buggered off to the Isle of Wight to catch up with my sister and family who were visiting her inlaws and got myself a lovely apartment for four nights. Poor dog couldn't come however so went into kennels.
(I couldn't bear to be with ex's family and have managed to never spend a christmas with them - to much focus on money, gluttony andd self self self. - and they have lots of outside lights at christmas....... how horrendous. Wreaths yes - but come on! electricity - wasteful environment never thought of, splash the cash obviously!!!
Any favourite christmases???
PS Als done one in Tunisia - last minute - not great, travelled on Christmas day, spent time drinking and smoking and checking out old and ancient ruins - Not as islamic as I would have liked - ie they had decorations!!! bleurgh!!!
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Am sorry but I am really sickened by the OTT adverts for food and gluttony at Christmas. Its a day.
The waste is disgusting.
The food for our day will not be wasted. We have chicken and get a corn fed one from the butchers as a Turkey even a Turkey crown is far too much.
Some spuds, carrots, brussels, cauliflower and brocoli, stuffing, and a few pigs in blankets. make our own sauce - white, cheese and good old gravy - all done.
Pea soup - frozen pea soup - home made bread -starter
Two bottles of wine and a few beers (4) is more than enough and lasts for Boxing day jollities as well - thats for two people and we often have stuff left. Doesn't go to waste can keep till new year!
Pavlova - home made with berries fruit etc as we don't do pudding or cake, (few home made short bread biccies/fairy cakes for weeny girl to make) Nice with a cup of tea.
Where do you have room for all the rest unless you are having a party on another day???
Ridiculous and wasteful if you ask me.
Never enough room for supper..... and it would be chicken sandwiches or cheese board snacks there was.
Why do I need to purchase sausage rolls, prawn rings, bottles of baileys.... Silly silly silly.
Will prob spend an extra £30 all in. Pah! Get fed for two days with leftovers for soup, curry etc etc and pavlova lasts us at least four days puddings.
Frenzied food shopping - There is just no need. Please people - give your greedy money to charity rather than defrost your prepacked sausage rolls and end up chucking them in the bin.
Tut tut tut
Shops open again by Tuesday!
Eeek Off to pack some more.
The waste is disgusting.
The food for our day will not be wasted. We have chicken and get a corn fed one from the butchers as a Turkey even a Turkey crown is far too much.
Some spuds, carrots, brussels, cauliflower and brocoli, stuffing, and a few pigs in blankets. make our own sauce - white, cheese and good old gravy - all done.
Pea soup - frozen pea soup - home made bread -starter
Two bottles of wine and a few beers (4) is more than enough and lasts for Boxing day jollities as well - thats for two people and we often have stuff left. Doesn't go to waste can keep till new year!
Pavlova - home made with berries fruit etc as we don't do pudding or cake, (few home made short bread biccies/fairy cakes for weeny girl to make) Nice with a cup of tea.
Where do you have room for all the rest unless you are having a party on another day???
Ridiculous and wasteful if you ask me.
Never enough room for supper..... and it would be chicken sandwiches or cheese board snacks there was.
Why do I need to purchase sausage rolls, prawn rings, bottles of baileys.... Silly silly silly.
Will prob spend an extra £30 all in. Pah! Get fed for two days with leftovers for soup, curry etc etc and pavlova lasts us at least four days puddings.
Frenzied food shopping - There is just no need. Please people - give your greedy money to charity rather than defrost your prepacked sausage rolls and end up chucking them in the bin.
Tut tut tut
Shops open again by Tuesday!
Eeek Off to pack some more.
Stuffed again!!!
BACK BOX CAR EXHAUST - £97.50
Bloody bloody hell
Have bit bullet and purchsed cooker on interest free credit for 1yr. ( See above issue) means I get a reasonably decent cooker ( investment) Gets delivered 22nd and fitted hopefully as long as both have right gas lock thing.
Have wrapped pressies and sorted to store at Biggles place. Am attacking each room individually. And cleaning as I go and labling etc.
Glad Ebay sorted Weeny girls christmas.
Also had to pay for Swimming lessons - I had this set aside. Once you start you just can't stop. It would be silly and a waste of money.
Internet, phone, tv fitted 6th January! Should be able to take morning/day off work.
How will I survive!!!!
Bloody bloody hell
Have bit bullet and purchsed cooker on interest free credit for 1yr. ( See above issue) means I get a reasonably decent cooker ( investment) Gets delivered 22nd and fitted hopefully as long as both have right gas lock thing.
Have wrapped pressies and sorted to store at Biggles place. Am attacking each room individually. And cleaning as I go and labling etc.
Glad Ebay sorted Weeny girls christmas.
Also had to pay for Swimming lessons - I had this set aside. Once you start you just can't stop. It would be silly and a waste of money.
Internet, phone, tv fitted 6th January! Should be able to take morning/day off work.
How will I survive!!!!
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