I love Orange. Not the colour the mobile phone people. Not only do they have great adverts and great customer service but they warned us it could take 7 - 15 working days to get our broadband on once BT got stuff sorted at their end. They did it in two days. How awesome are they!! I have never had a problem with them and in spite of the lack of reception here in our new pad, we are not changing to any other network.
and mostly unpacked, except for the stuff in storage. We love the house and the village and the move was mostly smooth.
Will report more later. Right now I am using pay as you go internet that I can't get a signal for at home, so posts will still be sparodic and short. Miss the web, can't wait for everything to be sorted at home Sigh.
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So, almost everything we own is packed, I have to book a skip and a lorry and check the carpets will be in on time. I will be without broadband for up to 3 weeks (ULP) and leaving the first house i bought and my home for the last 7 years on friday, never to return. It's odd. This house used to belong to my Dad's parents Chris and Edna. When I was a child edna used to make me warm milk and honey in this kitchen and I once bumped my head on their dining table in this house when i fell off my stool. I slept here a couple of times when my parents had to go away and deal with things. I remember the fireplace they had with all the family pictures on it. It was a different kind of home then.
i am excited about the new house, and anxious about everything that could go wrong on the day, or that even if everything goes right it's still going to be weird. Mark and I have bought a house together, first time I have allowed my life to become so firmly entwined with someone else's, hopefully the only time, we marry in november. Strange to move back to village life after so determindly rejecting it when I went ot uni and wonderful too, I hadn't realised it was what I wanted until mark brought it up. Not sure how the bunny will feel.
wish us luck and forgive me if I dissapear offline for a while.
Ok well I phoned Orangeto sort out moving my broadband to the new address. We move on Thursday/Friday so that will be the last time I have the net at home. It could then be 3 weeks before it's up and running in the new place, from tuesday when the BT line goes in. This i a source of considerable horror, especially since I can't even check webmail at work anymore. I guess I will have to take my laptop to starbucks a couple of times a week and pay to get online, but it means you aren't going to hear much from me for a while. The next few days are gong to be manic with preperation and then i'm getting cut off.
Will try and drop in from time to time, but mostly i guess i'll see you on the flipside.
I feel I can finally post about this because we exchanged contracts at 5:30 on thursday evening and we only found out yesterday.
Some of you wil remember that in a crushing blow just before christmas we lost a house we had been trying to buy as a part ex on ours. A four bed townhouse on the main street of husbands bosworth with a communal car park out back. Well the house was gorgeous but we had doubts about the position, but we wanted to be back in the sticks and it seemed a good opportunity.
Any way we stuck our house on the Market in Jan, found a buyer three weeks later and it has been slow but it's all finally gone through. The house we are now buying was the very first property we ever looked at, but discounted as too expensive. They dropped their price and we are now just waiting to complete on the 2nd of May and move in to a beautiful new build house, in a cul de sac in the quiet village of Husbands Bosworth that we wanted to live in. The position is gorgeous, the house not really any bigger than where we are now, but more expensive lol. The location is just dreamy tho and everything will be new. Will post pics soon.
Anyway, we are finally feeling able to talk as though it's happening and I wanted to share with blogland!!
I watched this movie last night, on my laptop, with my pink skullcandy headphone s(I love them so much) while mark watched beach cricket.
Oh my god how have i never seen this film before!!! It's wonderful! As a fan of Labyrinth & the Dark Crystal and such like, I picked up a triple bill cheap of the two above films and Mirrormask was the third. I love Neil Gaiman's books and comics and I loved the Neverwhere series, so I figured maybe i'd enjoy the film. I swear when we have kids the poor things will be forced to watch this once a month just so i can watch it again. mwahahahhaaha. I can't really say why i loved it so much, it just made me feel, well, a little bit confused and it was kind of surreal, but it fed straight into my love of fantasy. I suspect if they'd gone all high budget hollywood with this film, i wouldn't like it so much, but it has a distinct charm and i'd recommend it.
I am stuck at home waiting for my dentist appointment. So, I thought i'd post a pic of when we were showing marks dad and youngest brother round the village we are hoping to move to.
Or filing as most of us like to call it. I had a very theraputic day today doing my filing and sorting and conforming to our new quality assurance standards. Oh yeah, i'm a rebel. *grins* Still with our buyer supposed to be exchanging by end of play tommorrow my brain is on strike and this sort of pointless business was about my level for the day. Once the house is definately sold and our new house bought I can start to think again, but not before.
With that in mind, and the amount of reading I do, I have snuck back to blogger under a slightly altered name for my literary considerations. If you are interested http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/ if not, business as normal at this end.
Dragosani on my old PC - RIP
Boys playing with the Rat treat pinata. These are all old pics of long dead pets sadly. These three were (L-R) Quantum Leap, Lexx & Dragosani
L-R Lexx, Quantum, Flash Gordon, Dragosani and on top is Matrix Mouse when he was a baby.
Chaos on toast. He and his brother Stryfe were aptly named.
Pushkin as a baby. Not everyone is on here, no pics of Stryfe, Asimov or my current monsters Zaphod and Tardis on this post,maybe next week.
This innocent looking creature is actually a minion of hell. I got nipped again last night. I put her outside in the hutch and run for the day and when it starts to get dark I bring her in. We have a big urban fox problem and if you check out the old post "F**king Foxes" you'll get the whole story. Anyway, Es hates being picked up so subsequently she hates me. When I am carrying her she eats my clothing and while she will now sit on my lap for a few minutes she is becoming increasingly inclined to paw me when I go to get her and to nip me (with visible marks) if I hold er for any length of time. I think once we get settled in the new house (soon hopefully, still not sure if it's going through, will tell all when contracts are signed) it will be time to take the creature feature to the vet for spaying. It's a worry but I think it may calm her down. It will also help that the new house is in thne countryside and they have a more timid kind of fox out there, so hopefully she won't need to come in everyday.
