You know how it is, everything is just plodding along and then whoosh it all speeds up just a tad too quickly. This coming week will see us exchanging on our house; all those worries about selling and telling yourself you only need one buyer and one offer. We hope to be moving out by the end of the month so we will only be in a holiday rental for four weeks maximum. Have you seen the prices for holiday lets .... £600 plus per week in some parts of Morecambe Bay and the Lune Valley! Our furniture will be going into storage and we would like it to arrive at the beginning of October in Calgary (at the moment depending on employment).
Work can be 'difficult' - we are moving on but at the same time we want to leave everything ready for the next person to take on and improve etc. Our colleagues keep telling us to 'take that broad grin off' as we are looking too cheerful. Those of you who have been here will know that inside you're quite tense, on the one hand it is a new challenge (and at our age) and on the other it is starting out again although we do have skills which are transferrable, we hope.
We are now on decluttering phase 4, this basically means another trawl through all those things you have kept dear and kept for those just in case moments, that never came. I guess it is safe to say that if you haven't used it in three years it is OK to throw it!?! Bill says if we have not used it in 3 months........
My Jeep was sold in April and we delivered it to its new owner yesterday and my M200 UTD plate is on ebay, just in case anyone is interested or knows someone who might be ...... Man U are playing on Wednesday evening in the Champions League Final
We are gradually putting a list together of all the electrical items we are not taking with us, some of our friends and work colleagues have already been asking if we have a washer, a fridge freezer, a television. Then comes the embarrasing bit how much to ask for.
On a sunnier note the weather is brighter and sunnier, yes I know it is a Bank Holiday weekend and yes it will rain on Monday. Not in Morecambe they say. Our garden is full of lovely blooms, the cold winter weather has really given us seasons again and the spring flowers are stunning. Our poppies have never been so plentiful or as large and our spring flowering apricot rose is a picture. The sun does bring out the weeds though and yes that is my next chore.
Work can be 'difficult' - we are moving on but at the same time we want to leave everything ready for the next person to take on and improve etc. Our colleagues keep telling us to 'take that broad grin off' as we are looking too cheerful. Those of you who have been here will know that inside you're quite tense, on the one hand it is a new challenge (and at our age) and on the other it is starting out again although we do have skills which are transferrable, we hope.
We are now on decluttering phase 4, this basically means another trawl through all those things you have kept dear and kept for those just in case moments, that never came. I guess it is safe to say that if you haven't used it in three years it is OK to throw it!?! Bill says if we have not used it in 3 months........
My Jeep was sold in April and we delivered it to its new owner yesterday and my M200 UTD plate is on ebay, just in case anyone is interested or knows someone who might be ...... Man U are playing on Wednesday evening in the Champions League Final
We are gradually putting a list together of all the electrical items we are not taking with us, some of our friends and work colleagues have already been asking if we have a washer, a fridge freezer, a television. Then comes the embarrasing bit how much to ask for.
On a sunnier note the weather is brighter and sunnier, yes I know it is a Bank Holiday weekend and yes it will rain on Monday. Not in Morecambe they say. Our garden is full of lovely blooms, the cold winter weather has really given us seasons again and the spring flowers are stunning. Our poppies have never been so plentiful or as large and our spring flowering apricot rose is a picture. The sun does bring out the weeds though and yes that is my next chore.
