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Okay, that is weird. I just got myself into bed and our phone rang. What the? I think, but weâre not connected yet! It was just the one ring and no message left, but I try dialing my mobile and…
Continue readingAfter the hard work of unpacking box after box after box over the last few days, we had finally reached the point of having dining room, a dining table, and space to sit around it. That, at least, was before….
Continue readingI really didn’t want to come to work today. I wanted to stay at home and unpack, and get myself sorted. Still, just six and a half hours to go and I can attack those book boxes and get them…
Continue readingA second night passes in our new home, and a second morning comes. Today we had our first visitors in the form of my mum and dad, lending their hands to help unpack, make sense of the kitchen and put…
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass that some things must come to their end. Today was just such a day for the built-in wardrobes to the master bedroom. Or at least for some of them… Whilst Emma started work downstairs…
Continue readingWell, weâre in. Weâre surrounded by boxes â in fact we canât move for boxes â but weâre in. I donât think I ever really grasped just how much stuff I have. But I do have a lot of stuff….
Continue readingWhat started as a carefully planned operation fell at the first hurdle. We got up bright and early headed on down the motorway to Emmaâs old house only to get stuck on the A404 for far too long before we…
Continue readingOkay, the sad tale of William Jefferys gets worse and worse. It seems that his injuries are most likely to have been caused by (illegal since 1953) gin traps. One of Emmaâs colleagues who used to live in Caversfield and…
Continue readingThe Bad: I am cold and shivery and have a voice like a dying frog. 🙁 The Good: In 8 months time, it shall be my wedding day. Actually, in exactly 8 months I shall be married. 🙂
Continue readingToday has been awful. Em has been understandably bereft about the loss of her William, and I have realised just how much I do now love her cats just as much as my own. Iâve also come down with the…
Continue readingAt least it has been sunny today, and weâve been able to get much of the washing through, even if the house and garden does resemble a Chinese laundry. Weâve registered William as lost and stuck posters up around the…
Continue readingOur relaxing end to our holiday in Snowdonia, during which time we built over 17 metres of drystone wall, came to an abrupt end this afternoon. We had pottered down out of the mountains, stopping for lunch, now traditionally, at…
Continue readingOkay, so the symbol of my most romantic of gestures broke a few weekâs ago. Upon investigation to get it fixed it turns out that its not that the 18 carat white gold from Ernest Jones is actually not that…
Continue readingOur honeymoon is booked. 27 May to 10 June 2009, we shall be touring Namibia on our bespoke holiday courtesy of James at Audley Travel. It will be the biggest holiday of my life!
Continue readingOn Saturday, we discovered the tiny-on-the-outside-but-labyrinthine-on-the-inside joy that is Lissetters in the Kingâs End part of Bicester. We actually discovered it last Monday, when on leaving the Swan Inn we saw the most fabulous oak bed in the window. When…
Continue readingI am home alone. I saw Emma (very briefly) between work and going out for she has gone to try on wedding dresses with her Mum and sister. Itâs the first time since Em moved with me almost two months…
Continue readingIâve been bussing it from the Park&Ride this week. Walking down Little Clarendon Street, with the first of the fallen leaves blowing in the gutter and the light of the day still washed out by early morning, autumn works its…
Continue readingIâve just had the call. My solicitor has informed me that we have now exchanged contracts. We are all set to complete on Friday 26 September. I am so relieved, not because I thought it wouldnât happen, but because until…
Continue readingPhilip Pullman has listed his favourite books. Itâs a bit of fun really, but it does bring to mind the basis for a meme. So… 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you…
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