Just this one to go before it will no longer be Cairngorms Life but East Ayrshire Life, it has now been agreed that we all will move on the twenty sixth of this month
When I was younger and right up to moving here (seven moves in our married life), we were not half as stressed as we are finding this move and it is all down to technology. In the past most utilities had shops in your town or local, now everything is online or by telephone and is so much more difficult. Mainly due to security but also down to us being a technological dinasour.
For instance a one and a half hour call to (my favourite) British Telecomms, had a great guy who was very patient with this T.Rex and I made him explain every little detail in my language ( old fashioned English) not computer savvy English. Others asking for four numbered pass codes that I gave forty years ago, my iron aged relations maiden name or with an fuddled mind even my name became difficult to remember and all just for a change of address.
So I have not really ventured out much to take photographs and once I move home,I promise I will be much more active on here. As we are virtually packed three weeks before we move I am hoping I shall get some down time , to fish and go out with the camera, let’s hope. Just need to pray that all these phone calls and emails mean that when we are in the new house everything is like clockwork, which is incidentally the name of our removal company.
I am so sorry about this but I have two excuses to making this the shortest (photo wise) blog I have put up .1/ The stress of this move has kept me fairly housebound or needing to get out and enjoy a good meal somewhere. 2/ The cable between downloading the few shots I have taken to my camera has decided to pack up and my card reader is somewhere in a sealed moving box and I have no idea which one of the DOZENS littered around the house.
The three that you will see below are the only three that I had transferred into my blog library of a very adaptable Red Squirrel that has learnt how to get into a squirrel proof nut feeder.
So funny to see and it panics when it struggles to get out of the cage once had it’s feed.
Promise normal service will resume next month.
29th.
Why does moving have to be so stressful? you have worry after worry, will the money come through from the sale of your old home? Will all your “stuff” fit in the removal lorry? Will the keys to the new house be at their solicitors as promised and will you have any hold ups on your two and a half hour trip to get to said solicitors before they close at five pm? Will the people who used to own the house be packed up and gone by the time you get there? You arrive and look around the now empty house and all seems well, your son and partner turn up and you have a fish and chips supper before heading over to their place for the night, which gives you an extra boost.
But then you start worrying about the removal lorry on its long journey across Scotland, will it arrive okay. Well it did and the poor blokes had the most horrendous rain showers to unload in, but they did it with a smile. All fine house full of boxes but we are here safe and well, working hard to get as much done as possible but as we are having new carpets in both bedroom no point in unloading all the boxes only to move the contents when the carpet fitters come. Which in turn means I still have not found my card reader to download photos from the camera to put on here. so forgive me.
Was the stress worth it? I hope so we will make this a home instead of just a house and feel lucky that we seem to have a great bunch of neighbours that have all introduced themselves.
Another month gone by but the future is looking good.