Christmas was a quiet affair in our house, our two main players, appointed queens of the festivities, were out of the country and out of action respectively, as a consequence we all stayed in our own homes instead of having the customary huge celebration. \u00a0This has been a difficult \u00a0year and under the circumstances it was lovely as could be.<\/p>\n
Now we have to spring into action. \u00a0We are renovating a little house, it should have been ready in October for Thing 2 and his perfect girlfriend to move into but Thing 2 is a carpenter and everything has to be hand made of wood with an ancient tool that belonged to some biblical character which has delayed things somewhat.<\/p>\n
We have 22 days to finish said house, (my job is to paint the woodwork) \u00a0repair the garden in our rental (used as a car park for a year) empty and take down a forensic tent that we’ve had outside as storage, pack the house into two piles, one to be stored and one to be shipped, arrange the shipping, ready Vanley and move out.<\/p>\n
I sorted out my knicker drawer today and packed some cookery books, I think I’ll be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christmas was a quiet affair in our house, our two main players, appointed queens of the festivities, were out of the country and out of action respectively, as a consequence we all stayed in our own homes instead of having the customary huge celebration. \u00a0This has been a difficult \u00a0year and under the circumstances it … <\/p>\n