A little more waiting..

Lovely, reassuring Rogers Removals have packed my belongings into 4 containers & gone.  Now I'm just waiting for a phone call to say I've completed.

An empty house is a very peaceful place :)

Goodbye No. 44

Calm final yoga practice in an entirely empty room.

Bought hoover brush online to replace one erroneously sent to storage.  Trust that won't be the first of too many like purchases.

Boys due for final packing right now.  They aim to be done at lunch time.  I should have a few mins to eat my lunch up at Ally Pally.

M at work in Gatwick & needs to turn himself around pronto so we can see solicitor this afternoon to sort the pre-nup-without-the-nup paperwork. It would be great if we could sign contracts on new house at the same time - but solicitor silent on that one for now.

Thank you everyone for being there.

Lovely weather for it.

Knackered

A strangely calm day, watching professionals pack my home away, leaving a few essentials behind.  It was dismantling the desk that finished me off.  Can't access business brain without it.

Knackered myself untangling potted climbers from walls and fences.  Oz says leave the last ivy, whose roots have grown under the concrete.  She's right, but I've already hacked the poor thing about, it's not a pretty souvenir to leave behind..though as my gardening equipment is all on a van, I may as well.

Good thing Mr W has somewhere to live, as we're in limbo re: purchase.  Feels really weird here without Tiger.  I have a bed, sofa, microwave, tv and emergency food rations.  It feels like a strange variant on being under house arrest.  I'm only here because we're seeing the solicitor 4 miles away tomorrow, and the boys haven't quite done packing, or I'd be gone.  It is time the walrus said...

Packing up!

Packers here right now.

Seller's hysterical estate agent has actually got the day off.  All I can say is "Good!"

Action stations, or thereabouts

Just back home without cat [delivered to Staines, where I had a very pleasant lunch and tea out, with a very lovely M, with whom I may or may not be about to buy a very lovely house, legal wrangling permitting].  This place still looks like home, but doesn't feel like one without a cat.

Restful, enjoyable weekend in good company, without a single phone call re: purchase.  Neighbours and Jane & co here for a drink and a gossip yesterday.  Final night out at the knitting bar with M, followed by celebratory kebab - I never do quite get around to cooking for him.  God only knows what he thinks of me by now.

Parking blocked out for removals van by kindly neighbours with gardening bags.

All I need do now is eat, decide what's going to store, what's going to Staines, catch up with my lovely sister, and hopefully get a decent night's sleep before all hell breaks out on the phone again tomorrow.

Oddly calm..

..with a remarkably tidy house.  Not sure anyone would realise I was moving.  M is bringing containers over for my clothes; have identified bits & pieces that can go temporarily to his place.  That's it really.

Directing packing men on Monday, hopefully done & dusted in time for our afternoon appointment with solicitor.  Seller's estate agent blissfully quiet today.

Still need to unfurl a few potted climbing plants from fences, but it's quite breezy out there.  It can wait.

Have hoovered.  Am ironing.  How's that for a priority?  Guests & M to distract me this afternoon. Good.

No progress

.. just a lot of legal back and forth, with estate agent and me in the middle.  I like to think we're inching forward.  The sellers are getting fed up.

Neighbours & Michael here for drinks tomorrow.

So much packing, cleaning ahead.  No energy left.  It will all happen somehow.