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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…
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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…
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And in other news

We have many boxes. Our shipping company brought around the many boxes so that we could work out if we can cram both Rebecca and…
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SURVEY Survey survey

Today has been stressful. Not in the sense of I had to do anything super stressful, but just in the sense of we had the…
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So that was sad-lovely-odd

This weekend we went down to visit my mum in what is probably the penultimate visit to her house before we move to the US.…
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Vis-à-Vis a Visa (Part 2)

I can has VISA! Also: because these things are happening in pairs – we have a date for the survey of the house. Progress! Also,…
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vis-à-vis going to America

So on Monday night we headed down to our old stomping ground, Slough, where I had booked what turned out to be a quite stunningly…
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Big day approaches

As we get closer and closer to the visa day I get more and more stressed. Like, wandering in circles trying to shake it out…
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Well, that was one heck of a day.

I started off this morning with deep angst. That ‘Oh god we made the wrong decision’ angst. What if… what if that offer yesterday was…
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And I thought they would hatch

So, it turns out I’ve been involved in chicken counting. Which is foolish, and I should know better. Although we could sell the house at…