I have just been putting things "out of sight" in the kitchen as our buyers are coming back today to meet up with two local builders I have managed to get hold of to do some work on the cart shed barn (for his business). They are sure to want to look around the house again so I Will have to make sure it is presentable and the kitchen table not strewn with apples for starters! Anyway, I digress: I appear to have umpteen "useful" ice-cream containers in there, with lids of course, which I use for putting soups and cooked fruits in the freezer. Time for a sort out if we are to move. I went through my baking stuff last year and put a box of surplus loaf tins and baking trays into auction along with various other ephemera. Now I need to do a lot more pruning - a job for the weekend.
Plus "going through drawers" - another round of that. Then there are the (many) storage boxes of fabrics for patchwork. I shan't have room for those when we move so I will have to harden my heart. We won't talk about the books, yet, but if Tam had her way I would only own about a dozen. . .
I need to phone one of the Charity Shops too, and arrange to take sundry bags of "stuff" in to them. I know that the Sally Army one is open again and they are a good cause to support, and will take books too.
I spent all of yesterday morning on the phone to Agents in Wales and the West Country, trying to arrange viewings. Easier said than done, believe me. Especially with the owner who works shifts and the agents never know which day in the week they can arrange a viewing for . . . They will "get back to me". A PITA as I couldn't then arrange the next house in that area for the same day. Then there's one that is Online Viewing only. Do they honestly think that people are going to buy a house sight unseen? This one has a barn attached to the house and we would want to see how rough THAT was inside, and what needed doing to it . . . You can't get the feel for a house properly just from a photo.
I am being held to ransom by apples again. These are just a few of the biggest ones from ONE tree. I have already cooked up loads and given bags and bags away!
Right, this won't do. Still frightened it will All Fall Through . . .
