We’ve provisionally booked our trip to Norway. We’re off up the
fjords to the Arctic Circle. We still need confirmation of flights & hotel
rooms in Bergen. But at least we’ve got a disabled cabin booked on the
ship. That’s a good start.
Our friends have finally managed to find a house to buy. The
survey isn’t too bad. Now they just hope nothing stops the sale of their present
house which was agreed before Christmas. The buyers have been surprisingly unpushy
about it. We’re all hoping they’ve not changed their minds. Hopefully the move
will occur early in March.
It has to be admitted moving house is traumatic at the best of
times. But when you’re nearing 80, it really is a bit much. The stress of
trying to find somewhere else to live has certainly taken a toll on our
friends. They’re looking so tired.
Now they’re on to the job of sorting out what to keep & take
with them & what to throw out. It reminds me of our resolution to do some
throwing out, too. It’s amazing how much clutter you gather when you’ve lived
in the same house for 20 odd years. We have things in the attic we put there
when we first moved in & never brought down since. They’re all things that
will be useful “some day”, or so we thought, but we’ve forgotten what they are
so bought new anyway. For that matter, there are things which are no longer
appropriate for our lifestyle today, things like videos for the video recorder
we no longer have, dress patterns when I know I’m never going to be able to
cope with making my own clothes again, bedding for the single bed we no longer
have and so it goes on. In other words a load of clutter that someone else may
be able to find a use for.
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