The new house

Well, we have now moved. It was somewhat close to bedlam last Friday as we attempted to get all the stuff from the flat into the back of a van. I have to admit that 99% of it was my junk and the rest Keith's. Despite that he did most of the humphing of boxes. At lunchtime, when we hadn't had the call about the keys...I hate when things go wrong, we called the solicitor only to be told "well, there has been a bit of a problem", hmm, "so what do we do if we don't get the keys today?", "well, you can get compensation". Brilliant, compensation doesn't rebuild your bed or find the tv under 12 feet of stuff or look after a van full of gear overnight, does it...? Anyway we did what we could to move what we could to my brothers and then sat on the living room carpet waiting for some sign. I decided a little word in Ganesh's ear might be what we were missing - so had a little chat. And about 4 o'clock we got the call - the money had gone through and we could pick up the keys, hurray!

By the time we had gotten the keys it was after 5pm and we still had the prospect of getting all the stuff up the stairs. We were both knackered before we started but knew it had to be done. So off we went again. The sofa was as evil to get in as we imaged, we even managed to crack one of the pains of glass in the front door doing it - but its in. All of it and starting to look a bit more like home.

If have some before and after photos of the old and new house. To illustrate the new pad...

Old hall, new hall - a bit bigger

New bedroom, much, much bigger and huuuge wardrobes

Old kitchen, new kitchen, much smaller, boooo

Old living room, new living room, much bigger - hurray

Additional spare room, one or two bits of junk in....

Additional, grandly titled, study

I think the main difference, apart from the space is the rather less minimalist decor here. Never mind, we will sort that out with time. The kitchen is dreadful though - not built for a couple of cooks that's for sure.