Gumbygreeneye
18th July 2006, 06:07 AM
Hello guys,
Just a quick update more I suppose for it's own sake!
Dorree Bonners arrived today and packed most of the house with the crate packing tomorrow. I'll give you a review when the process ends, but so far, no problems and they really tried to reduce space (even taking apart wardrobes themselves). A little beer money finished their day.
My house is packed though they've left the bed. I can't bring myself to sleep at our friends tonight for fear of an open home ripe for burglaries.
By the way.. no internet (its been packed and I'm at a friend's).. I'm already suffering internet paralysis!!! :wah
I have mixed feelings as to the excitement of going. One part of me still doesn't believe I'm going (more in the sense that I still feel that my house is home and not a house yet), then the next five minutes we're excited. Not feeling sad at the moment as the pre-departure work has been high and no time to.
Nevertheless, we have planned this well (I hope) and all the little "to-do" lists have really paid off making the most difficult part of the emigration process getting paid from work (finally, though six weeks late) and getting O2 to give me a new phone as it had been back to the shop 3 times for the same repair. Something tells me they didn't ever even identify the problem.
Nice things that have happened is that we have even more to go with as I paid too much into the tax account and had a little more after the straggly extra shifts we booked before we left. Our friend lent us their car and our others are letting us stay with them in the last few days.
I have no cars (the guy who said innit after every sentence didn't buy it, but strangely, phoned me a week after at 11pm to ask if I still had it.. I said no, he replied.. "Well, um.. have you got anything else to sell?"... you wierdo! He couldn't manage to get himself down to see the car that he said he would buy "120%" after he even asked me not to sell it. Everybody should have a call from this man.. it does wonders for your ego.. It makes you say "at least I'm not that... (fill in the blank)"!
Anyway, the update is in part a big thankyou to all the help I have received either from reading other postings or from people direct replies.. so "Thankyou".
I'll keep you posted, but we'll leave in a few more days, so wish us luck!
KJ
Just a quick update more I suppose for it's own sake!
Dorree Bonners arrived today and packed most of the house with the crate packing tomorrow. I'll give you a review when the process ends, but so far, no problems and they really tried to reduce space (even taking apart wardrobes themselves). A little beer money finished their day.
My house is packed though they've left the bed. I can't bring myself to sleep at our friends tonight for fear of an open home ripe for burglaries.
By the way.. no internet (its been packed and I'm at a friend's).. I'm already suffering internet paralysis!!! :wah
I have mixed feelings as to the excitement of going. One part of me still doesn't believe I'm going (more in the sense that I still feel that my house is home and not a house yet), then the next five minutes we're excited. Not feeling sad at the moment as the pre-departure work has been high and no time to.
Nevertheless, we have planned this well (I hope) and all the little "to-do" lists have really paid off making the most difficult part of the emigration process getting paid from work (finally, though six weeks late) and getting O2 to give me a new phone as it had been back to the shop 3 times for the same repair. Something tells me they didn't ever even identify the problem.
Nice things that have happened is that we have even more to go with as I paid too much into the tax account and had a little more after the straggly extra shifts we booked before we left. Our friend lent us their car and our others are letting us stay with them in the last few days.
I have no cars (the guy who said innit after every sentence didn't buy it, but strangely, phoned me a week after at 11pm to ask if I still had it.. I said no, he replied.. "Well, um.. have you got anything else to sell?"... you wierdo! He couldn't manage to get himself down to see the car that he said he would buy "120%" after he even asked me not to sell it. Everybody should have a call from this man.. it does wonders for your ego.. It makes you say "at least I'm not that... (fill in the blank)"!
Anyway, the update is in part a big thankyou to all the help I have received either from reading other postings or from people direct replies.. so "Thankyou".
I'll keep you posted, but we'll leave in a few more days, so wish us luck!
KJ