new house

Here we are!! We've been in Cov now for over a week and are all settled and nearly unpacked in our proper grown up house. I even mowed the lawn (front and back!!) yesterday so be impressed!

Friday:

1 bathroom packed and cleaned (thanks Jude)

1 kitchen packed and cleaned (thanks Pippa)

1 wardrobe and 1 bed dismantied (and 1 couple sleeping on the floor that night!)

2 bedrooms hoovered

Everything we own that was left to pack packed (phew!)

4 yummy take away Thai meals from the Cock and Dragon and 1 sausage and chips from the chippy down the road

Saturday

7 bacon sarnies

5 willing helpers (thanks Steve, Achanda, Jason, Daniel and Stu)

1 large lorry with tail lift (just a perk of having a father in law who works in van hire)

1 lorry loaded in 2.5 hours

1 whole house hoovered and emptied

1 piano collected from Harpenden

1 piano deposited in Marsh Farm

1 HUGE lunch prepared by my mum

1 piano collected from my parents' house

1 lorry and 2 cars zooming up the M1

4 more willing helpers (thanks Mum, Dad, Gavin and Bernie)

1 empty lorry and 1 house full of boxes

2 rats relieved to be out of their small cage and back in their cage mansion again

1 Chinese meal consumed

1 bed and 1 wardrobe reassembled

1 kitchen unpacked (thanks Gav)

5 new neighbours met.... Hi Steve, Mary, Natasha, James and Lauren

lots of tired people

Since then...

7 pieces of flat pack furniture assembled

Several boxes unpacked

Several bags filled with rubbish, too many to fit in the wheelie bin

A disgustingly large amount of money spent on furniture (err.. hello IKEA)

1 bargain new sofa (err... hello Oxfam home store!)

1 thumb hit with hammer and two heads banged on door frames/loft beams

Too much time spent with finger under cold tap, waiting for it to get hot (they are the other way around here)

1 church visited and one guy met who used to go to Dan's parents' church in Enfield

1 BBQ and several microwave or just-add-water meals (our cooker isn't connected yet)

1 tiny but very noisy camping fridge in the kitchen (our fridge freezer won't arrive until September)

Several employment agencies visited and one telephone interview. No work yet though.