Month December 2005

Well, Friday we finished packing the bungelow. We managed at last to get the Rug Doctor from teh Co-op (there was a run on Rug Doctor usage pre Christmas) and the carpets came up fine. We decamped over to Jim…

I am writing this in the library whilst we wait for our change of address letters to print. These will go in the post today and hopefully will not get lost before businesses open up again in the new year.…

We’ve started counting down to our move ‘this time next week…’. Sadly so far the answer to this time next week generally forecasts our driving round France looking for Spain. ‘Heading South’ is just not going to be good enough.…

So instead of carrot for the raindeer it is straw for the camel.

…however she doesn’t know a short wheelbase, long bodied Transit 100 when she sees one! And if she still thinks we’re going to paint pink flowers down the side she’s another thing coming.

…. we are about to move. At the end of August just before we sold Mineral House,we were shortlisting what we were looking for in our house in Spain and were convinced that a farmhouse, with a few acres, near…

In an uncharateristic show of doubt in her own infallibility, last weekend Kate had me fly to Spain to confirm that she had made the right choice for our next home in the house in Villegarcia. So it was that…