View from the Potting Shed

Well, I’m clearly not blogging from my main PC this evening. My desk is now bare, apart from my BT Voyager modem (CLEARLY my WiFi modem is going to be one of the final things to be packed!). So I’m in bed on my laptop making a final blog post from 3a.
Tomorrow morning […]

This morning I felt a bit like the chap in the photograph. Having woken around 04:30 and listened to the US mid-term elections for a while on the BBC World Service I fell soundly asleep once again only to be rudely awoken by Jane, nudging me and saying “Gareth! It’s 08:15!” Just goes […]

This is the bit that I’ve been dreading: the full scale packing has begun. For the next three weeks we’re going to be living with boxes. Boxes of belongings where there was once just belongings.
The house is slowly but surely turning into a store house for boxes. Boxes, boxes everywhere and not a […]

This is either:

the day that the bailiff’s came to visit
or

Jane beginning packing, starting in the living room

I suspect that it is the latter, but I pixelated their face anyway, just in case.

The kitchen at Kadesh, now finally empty.
This has been a good weekend for support and help from friends, and thanks to them Kadesh is now empty and ready for a new boiler (next week) and handover (the following week).
Last week as I began to dismantle the furniture at Kadesh Jane packed up the crockery and […]

The image above — if you can make it out — represents one of the draft ideas that we had for our wee holiday cottage Kadesh had we been able to extend it. This morning, however, we discovered fairly conclusively that extending it will be nigh on impossible for us. Not because of […]

Today we finished unpacking, and completed a few of the odd jobs that were still on our home-made ’snagging list’. At least when we return from Edinburgh tomorrow we’ll come back to a fairly tidy house. The entrance hall, however, looks pretty much like the image above. That’s Bank Holiday Monday’s task, […]