The Final Countdown

Well here we are in a holiday village sat outside a bar at lunchtime Saturday. The house is sold the furniture is packed and now in store and we are both emotionally and physically shattered. It has been a roller coaster of a few days, the removers arrived on Wednesday bright and cheerful and we walked around the house pointing out all our worldly goods WE have considered essential to our new life in Canada. They told us that all the untreated baskets could not be shipped, OK not a major problem, then all the candles were not possible in case they melted or ignited (shame you need a match to light them normally!). And of course we had numerous trips to the tip; it becomes easier to throw items away especially when they are of no use to anyone. Friends and colleagues at work took lots of little items off our hands at the last minute and then felt 'difficult' because we didn't ask for much. The hardest part of the two days was as the final piece of furniture went into the van and the guys asked if we were OK at that point we were but as they shut the doors at the back and bolted down the side doors the emotions rose up ... daft though it might seem.


The home we had was now just a house and could have belonged to anyone, devoid of everything that had made it ours. We stood in the garden and took it all in: when we moved in the house was new the garden just flat and grassed - now it was completely different. We ran the pump and enjoyed the sound of trickling water through the two smaller ponds into the big pond. The lilies Bill had planted out were beginning to flower and as for the front garden it was still blooming with red pokers coming through!

Friday morning saw us giving the house a final clean, completion took place in the morning!! never heard of that before and we locked the door at 11 am. It was only as we left that I remembered not seeing the key to next door, we were the key holders for their alarm as they were for ours, the little brown envelope had been packed with the contents of the cupboard. Dave's response to this news was well we can't be burgled for a while! We agreed to post the keys back once we received our container in October! We arrived at our workplaces exhausted as we hadn't slept well and were up drinking tea at 5 am.

Our holiday let is comfortable and we have spread out in it. Does this mean we are in holiday mode I asked Bill as we are in a holiday let, not quite was the reply.