{"id":82,"date":"2018-04-11T18:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:00:10","slug":"waiting-for-godot-well-paperwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Godot (well paperwork)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going slowly crazy waiting &#8211; no nothing happened today &#8211; we are waiting for one piece of paper ONE!\u00a0 I was relieved to hear that everything else is in place and as soon as this piece of paper arrives it will be a fait accompi.\u00a0 Frankly I a smidge sceptical that it will ever happen.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I emptied Child one&#8217;s bedroom, four bin liners later there is a lovely tidy room for my BFF who is coming from Cornwall tonight to beat me into regaining my sanity.\u00a0 \u00a0I have found so many things on my clearing out, at least half of them have no useful purpose and some I have absolutely no idea what they are.\u00a0 What am I supposed to do with such things, historically anything I have arbitrarily thrown away has proved to be utterly essential within 24 hours of the bin being emptied.\u00a0 Well when they find out this time, hopefully, I will be in the wind!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going slowly crazy waiting &#8211; 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