It has been 40 days since we moved to our current homeless situation.  Actually it has been 41 days, and it is raining.  About now old Noah would be getting off his ark and releasing the animals two by two! But we are still here, adrift in our temporary caravan accommodation. It isn’t too bad because we know it won’t be for much longer. Our … Continue reading 40 days and 40 nights
After 87 days from idea to realisation, we are now all moved and settled in to our new place. Well not quite settled in. We are living in a caravan with all our worldly possessions scattered about the place waiting to be rearranged in a orderly fashion.  We may be there for a short while, the house arrives, all going well in early March or … Continue reading A Sea Change
There is a strange sense of peace. I am ready to leave the garden. Which is just as well as we are out of here on Thursday.  It has only been 85 days since we made the decision to make the move. It feels like a lifetime, but also at the same time it feels like it was only yesterday. Parts of me still feel … Continue reading Last days
It is fair to say the process of selling a house isn’t a simple process. Pop a holiday season in the middle of it all and it can really be challenging. The first step of getting the house ready for sale doesn’t just include the standard decluttering and making a home a house of show room standard, devoid of all but a few personal items … Continue reading The hardest worker of all.
This is a strange time of year in many ways. Ordinarily we aren’t here at all, but off beside the sea somewhere soaking in the summer sun and doing some well deserved relaxing after a hard year of hard yakka. Sometimes we’re in a tent – although not often. I’ve long since decided sleeping on uneven ground under a thin piece of fabric that is … Continue reading The in Between
