I'm aware these posts have been disjointed, dull and a bit crap recently and for that I can only apologise, but, well, if you've been paying attention you'll doubtless appreciate that they are not the thing at the forefront of my mind right now! It's been nice to have a weekend "off" (sort of) though, however, even if I have been suffering from plague for most of it. Fortunately, I think I am pretty much over the worst now, so hopefully the impending stress of next week won't cause a relapse or anything.
Next week should — hopefully, anyway — be the last of the stress for the year. Christmas shopping is almost done and dusted, nearly all of the stuff is in the new house and there's just some boxes to unpack into relevant locations before we're "finished" and ready to start living properly. (We need to retrieve our pet rats, too. I am looking forward to seeing them again. I hadn't anticipated quite how much I would miss the little buggers.)
The only real issue we've had is that the lovely new sofa we bought a while back won't go into our flat. Well, it will; it just won't go up the stairs that lead to it. To be fair, the removal people had a try before giving up, but it was at the end of the day after they had lugged all the rest of our stuff up the stairs, so they probably weren't much in the mood to attempt to manoeuvre a three-seater sofa around an awkward staircase. Perhaps it will work better with a fresh outlook — any local friends reading this who would like to come and help try at some point in the near future, please get in touch and let me know, otherwise it's going to be a case of either leaving it in the garage (undesirable) or getting someone to take out a window and hoist it in (probably expensive). Bah! Why are things never easy?
I head back to Wiltshire tomorrow evening to finish up my "civic duty". I'm really hoping it won't go on for too long, largely because we're supposed to be all moved out and checked out of our old house by next Friday, which means if things go on any longer than that I have a very long commute. Or a stay in a hotel. (I'm actually staying in a hotel for a couple of nights this week because it's infinitely preferable to sleeping on the floor of an almost-empty house with no curtains. A few sleeps on the floor this week probably didn't help with the plague I've been suffering from for the past few days. Blergh.)
Just. Got to. Make it. Through. This. Week. Then everything will be fine and dandy. Christmas will be here, and it will be nice. Then it will be 2013, which will be a good year. I hope.
I feel as if the last few New Years have consisted of me wishing that the impending year was better than the previous one. 2013, despite having a "13" in it, will be a good one, I'm sure. I'm back in the place I want to be, and with any luck things will get nicely "settled" so I can look forward to the future rather than worrying about the past and present.
We'll see, I guess. For now, I'm going to drug myself up and try to get some sleep.
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Re the sofa – do you have a balcony? or sliding glass doors? or is the window one you can slip the panels out of? Coz if any of the 3 are positives then go to the local machinery hire place – you know scaffold n hoists, n leaf blowers, n hedge trimmers etc. you can hire a crate-lifting hoist thingy – you know the small version sof the ones you see used in warehouses to move things on pallets around – from them, shove it under the sofa n lift!!! we used one from pete's work to lift our old fridge down out of the house n then lift the new 2-door dble monster fridge/freezer up n over the balcony by ourselves n then used a fridge trolley – tho usually he likes to use an old skate board he won't throw out – to trundle it into place.
This last weekend he had me on the end of 2 heavy glass display cabinets i bought from a shop that was chosing down. I went backwards up the stairs which twist twice, and into our bedroom. It came under the same category as the yard full of horse sand i had to spread when I had a broken elbow – your horse you shovel it! your cabinets you carry them! He's such a honey, hey?! Any girl would be glad to have him. Please! 😀
Meanwhile my bad back is now an excruciating back, so that I couldn't go to the gallery and do my stint as artist in residence – how could i be creative in such pain! I hope I'll be okay by Thursday as I have to man the gallery then – at least that is just mostly sitting around.
Have a great Xmas and enjoy your new home!
PS: I'd pop over and give you a hand with the sofa but me back hurts!!!
Heh. No worries. Sadly, no, we do not have a balcony, French doors or windows that you can easily slip the panels out of. The window frames themselves are plenty big enough to fit the sofa through, but it would involve removing the entire window arrangement, I think. I have no idea how costly that is, but we will at least look into it as that sofa is much nicer than our "backup" sofa which we're currently using. (The nice sofa is also a sofa bed, which is another reason we'd like to get it up here!)
Hope the back feels better soon!