Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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As we run around we pause to say hello
We’ve been heading all over the country to see friends and fam over the past few weeks. This last weekend it was the turn of a couple of couples to host and entertain us. In the loosest sense of the word, they happen to be near the under the pier show, which is a Tim…
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Yah, boo.
So today we exchanged contracts! Which is good. Although it feels rather anticlimactic, and because of other scheduling things we’ve gone from having a nice 2 weeks to sort stuff out to utter stress about having only 9 days to pack everything. Which is kinda stressful. And since we’ve finally hit the point of doing…
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One step forward, two steps back.
And so it continues. We had a good weekend – headed over to see our friends James and Rachel, and nearly froze to death out at Waddesden Manor. As we went to leave Bristol we stepped outside the door and went “Oh dear god it’s cold”. From an incredibly mild November it’d suddenly become a…
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So that chicken counting
The car cost about £6k more than it was meant to. The house is selling for £10k less than we originally agreed. I’ve earned around £8k less than I was hoping/expecting to. …oh, and the pound’s dropped against the dollar by quite a bit. This is going less well than we might hope. I tried…
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…and down
So today is one of those sucky days where I feel much less good than normal. I’m feeling frustrated by the lack of progress on the house, I’m frustrated by feeling like we’re not moving forward and I’m feeling down about leaving our beautiful home that we’ve made for ourselves for a disturbingly unknown future.
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Endlessly slow
So it seems our buyer’s solicitors are set on doing every action sequentially. So rather than, say, when they were waiting for the survey to occur, getting the ‘Land Search’ done, and perhaps going through the inventory, they did each thing one after another waiting for the survey, then waiting for the land search, then…
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Creeping ever onwards
I’ve not posted for a little while because progress has been painfully slow. Despite reassurances from our conveyancer, the contracts haven’t been exchanged, although she believes that they’ll be exchanged on Monday*. Today we did the sad thing, we sold our iMiEV. Well, technically we sold it a few days ago, but the very lovely…
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We are filling our house with boxes
…and I am beginning to have a minor freakout about the sudden reality dawning that we’re actually going to move country. That I’ll have to start making friendships with new people, something I notoriously suck at. And trying to maintain old friendships over a 4,766 mile distance. Gah. This post brought to you by our…
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So, that’s a relief
It’s not the official result yet. But… :)
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Wakey Wakey
Sometimes my tired old MacBook won’t wake from sleep. Lets be honest, there are lots of things it won’t do anymore, including ‘staying switched on’, sometimes. But one of those things is that if it’s left open and goes into sleep mode, sometimes it won’t wake up. It clearly starts to, the fan kicks in,…