I've not been enjoying this week very much - I have been channelling "worried" like no tomorrow. We thought we were all booked and ready to roll with our removal when we had a completion date, but no end of emails to the removal chappies bore fruit. Eventually we had a phone call in reply to one and we asked for the invoice so we could pay, as we thought until we had one we weren't properly booked in, but still nothing. Last night at midnight I woke and my brain was hurtling round like a psycho rabbit and worrying about the move. Did they regret the price they had given us, did they want the offer to expire and then they could withdraw? Were all the boxes of books a REAL issue? I had been trying to get an invoice for nearly a month after all! It was Looking Dodgy to me, especially after I had been awake for hours.
Anyway, my head was NOT in a good place this morning and I went nutso with work (how I cope with stress) and removed another 3 big boxes of books from the Junk Room bookshelves. I put another dozen historical novels (Barbara Erskine and Philippa Gregory) in a book-bag for my friend. She can keep the Barbara Erskine and baby sit the Philippa Gregory books, which I will have back when we are settled in our new home. I spent half the afternoon, whilst watching the racing, going through my boxes of stock, and properly wrapping the contents, and removing any treen or leather pieces which might be damaged if stored in a barn. The same friend will look after the boxes of stock until we have moved too. Less chance of china being damaged in transit when we move it ourselves later.
I also cleaned the car, which had been filthy for ages. It's going in for MoT soon and green algae around the headlights isn't a good look! Keith always power washes it underneath at the garage, but doesn't really clean the body work, just a quick swoosh over the windows before he's finished! We have never been clean-the-car-on-a-Sunday-morning sort of people . . . more do it when absolutely necessary.
Whilst I was out there I set about picking up windfall apples, and raking leaves up from beside the path - that took 4 barrowloads to clear it! and there are still plenty of apples under the tree (for the birds). Tomorrow it will be the windfalls under the cooking apple tree.
