Craic Den

Well, yesterday the shippers came and put all of our stuff into a shipping container and hauled it off to the port. The poor chap from the removal company was on his own and he worked hard to get it all boxed up and then into the container. At least someone turned up to help him with the heavy stuff at the last minute. I keep on going around the house, paranoid he missed something, or worse packed something he shouldn't - like the visas or passports! Also paranoid that customs are going to swarm all over our stuff and find the packet of tea I sneaked into our kitchen stuff...
So now Keith and I are living in our version of a crack den. We have our mattress on the floor, a portable tv on a chair and our laptop. That's it. It does feel a bit "Trainspotting" and keep joking we have to sell the TV for our next fix.
We both had a trip home last week to see our parents. I had a great time. The weather was lovely and we had lots of nice walks, ate cream teas, had a couple of BBQs and visited my grandparents. Its always odd when you have a really lovely time and it makes you twice as sad when you leave. I was fine until I got home and into bed and suddenly I felt really sad and had a little cry but a quick hug and I was fine. I guess you are never too old too miss your mummy and daddy.
We are just marking time now, saw the solicitor today about the sale of the house, I popped to ENT to get my hearing aid checked out for the last time. Now all we have to do is hang in our crack den, go to the cinema, visit friends and generally be lazy. Its nice, having laziness forced upon you. Not used to it.
Hoping to get on the net pretty fast in Oz. Even if I can get a dongle - not sure how they will be about using the pc at work. Another thing to figure out......

Washer Woman

I have spent the entire morning/ day washing my shoes. How mad is that? I feel like I have OCD! I am glad nobody came round and saw what I was doing - they would have thought I was mad.
You have to clean all your shoes before customs will allow them into Australia, I should explain. I have not just gone totally mad.
Feeling kind of weird about it all today - maybe its beginning to sink in a bit....

The house is up for sale!

At last. Its finished. Its for sale.
Take a look - there are lots of pictures.
Feel free to make me an offer!

http://www.remax-scotland.com/PublicListingFull.aspx?lKey=9efe76aa-b95a-4996-9fdc-124d197b548d&SearchKey=7911EFD50F3043B9B0F24021A28CE128&Index=3&RNDIndex=633489238734859063

well, here is one half of the finished kitchen. In the middle of taking these my camera properly broke - it was on its last legs anyway, so now I have no camera - which is fairly annoying. I mean it was just over a year old, is technology designed to break now? Usual story with repairs, more than it would be to get a new one, blah, blah, blah. Will have to wait till I get to Oz now. Which is a total pain.

Anyway. Kitchen looks good I think. Much more storage. More of a cooks kitchen than a "heat a tin of soup" kitchen. Brighter and cleaner too.

Going to get the study and the bedrooms sorted out today, then off to yoga and then a party at my friends Lisa's house tonight. So a busy day.

Less than one month till we leave now.

I had to laugh yesterday. Someone at work thought I had made up that I was going to Oz and it was an elaborate ploy to cover the fact that I was actually going into the big brother house! How much of an egomaniac do they think I am! Madness.