Just realised I'd not posted this - Its definitely a baby, although it seems to have a gap between its head and body. hopefully that will get sorted in the next few months..... :-)

all going well, feeling fine, which is a good thing as work is busy and stressful, but thats part of the joys of being in my role I guess. house is still wonderful, enjoying lots of home grown strawberries and gooseberries at the moment, and looking forward to the potatoes, carrots, onions, courgettes etc.

new table and chairs

 


in our new kitchen in our new house.... oo oo oo oo

went shopping last weekend researching, and this weekend we actually bought! One lovely 7 foot long kitchen table, 6 lovely chunky oak chairs, one lovely wardrobe, one matching chest of drawers and 2 bedside tables.

Ooooh bedside tables. for the past 10 years I have used some wooden boxes that my cousin's wife gave me from a shop display.

I have finally reached grown-up-ness.

I'm on dial up, god its slow! but I thought it was time for a little update. House is still fab, garden is coming along, the slugs annihilated my courgettes but I saved a few and we have now resorted to blue pellets (we tried it the nice way..... now for the tough line).

Work is particularly difficult at the moment, so an extra day bank holiday is a great relief, and to top it off, its a birthday too :-)

We spent Fri-Sunday camping with friends near Symonds Yat, in lovely weather. Sat the boys and Tanya went climbing and we spent time watching them then found a pub when we got bored (having stumbled our way down the track and had to ask a lovely gentleman to help five month pregnant Amy down the slope). Sunday we faffed about for a while then went for a walk, ending up in the pub again.

Today we have pent time in the garden, went to a little street fete and then I came home and feel asleep for a fair few hours. My knackerdness is not unjustified, in that whilst the weekend wasn't overly strenuous I think I may have overdone it. I think most people now know but for the record I'm 15 weeks pregnant, getting fatter by the day and due November 17th. Not making it overly known at work due to the current challenges, but it is getting hard to hide the bump!

life is about to get very different!

on the move

we're packed... we'll fairly well packed, completely surrounded by boxes and absolutely knackered. We exchanged contracts today and complete tomorrow. Then there'll be no phone line for 11 days..... aaaargh how am I going to cope.

Normal service to be resumed at some point.....

new beginnings...

we;; its a time for out with the odl and in with the new. We still haven't exchanged but things are all set for exchanging on Tues and completing on Wed (so fingers crossed all the way). After a couple of days of swearing about the buyers and their slack solicitor, we finally got some movement,although their cheque isn't cleared until Tues hence the delay. all of which meant that our money had to be paid via CHAPS at additional cost which is really annoying as we have been ready to pay it for weeks and been asking how to get it done. Given that it is coming from 3 accounts that has meant 3 charges which we didn't need to incur (plus a bit of stress when i couldn't find my bank card!) but I guess its s drop in the ocean of moving charges.

So we've been packing, wrapping, clearing and laughing at the utter crap we have accumulated over the years.

I will be sad leaving this house as it has been a great place to live, but I am really excited about the next step in life and can't wait to set up a home that is ours, and start the next chapter.

house frustrations

the people buying our house are arses.

that is my highly considered thoughts on the situation. They have kept us hanging around now for over 2 weeks, are trying to drag it out even longer and are not even answering the phonecalls of their own solicitor or our estate agent.

I don't think this is a fundamental problem, jsut them being idiots about the moving date (for F***S sake they are not even moving, their son is packing a bag and walking round the corner!!!). but at present I am planning on taking all the lighbulbs and curtain rails and if I could remove the radiators I would.

Tossers.

(I feel a little better now :-) )