Hello, lovelies!
Well, that was a hectic week and a bit…There’s a little bit
to catch up on, so will try and give you the short version!
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So, Saturday before last (20th) was getting to be
one of the worst days ever by the
time I eventually walked through the front door in good ol’ Kernow. It. Was.
Hellish. Picture a fraught pair of twentysomethings, hungover and tired as
hell, trying desperately to pack a tiny flat’s worth of possessions into a Ford
Fiesta while the weather is as uncooperative as possible and working flat-out
in order to catch various flights and trains. Add to that picture assorted
emotions (sad, stressed, worried, hopeless realisation that not all the stuff
will fit in the car, anger at losing a wallet, relief at finding it again) and
remember that breakfast just hadn’t happened – it occurred to me later that I
hadn’t actually eaten a proper meal in two days by this point – and you’ve
pretty much got the gist of how horrifically awful Saturday 20th February
2016 was. I missed the first train completely, and had to inevitably deal with
rail replacement buses for half of the journey anyway. By the time I got home I
was absolutely spent…
Cats and Chinese food helped the recovery process along, though. Can’t
recommend highly enough the medicinal healing power of cuddling kitties and
scarfing down hot noodles.
The rest of last week passed relatively uneventfully, and
was mostly spent acclimatising to the new working from home arrangements.
Tell you what, it seems amazing now that I ever had to go to work without
slippers on! It all seems to be going well at any rate, if a little unusual
that there’s no longer a commute to have to deal with. Plus it’s just a huge
relief to not have to worry about where money will come from when there’s
enough to be thinking about as it is…
And then, before we knew it, Saturday 27th rolled
around and it was officially time to move! After a freezing hour-and-a-half’s
wait at Bristol station (seriously, why are
there no seats or cafés to spend long waits in at that station!? Sort it out,
BTM), J and I were reunited and set off on the drive to the Midlands. Right
precarious drive that was, too: he couldn’t see anything out of the back window
due to it being piled high with our things, and I had a suitcase perched on my
lap for two and a half hours and cried on and off for multiple reasons for
pretty much the duration of the journey. Yayyy.
After spending the majority of Sunday at IKEA (and failing
to purchase anything of any decent use except three curtain poles), we’re more
or less beginning to find our feet at last. Tomorrow we have some big,
important things being delivered (a bed! A fridge-freezer! A washing machine!),
so it’ll be my first proper day in the house which should be interesting. Can’t
wait to have everything finally put away in its proper place and looking homely
and cosy at last.
As the process of unpacking and making a house a home can be
dull for some people, thought I might try and mix things up a bit by maybe
doing a little house haul here and there, or documenting the process of turning
our new place into something special. If there’s anything specific you’d like
to see here with regards to home, decorating etc, let me know in the comments
section below!
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