So much to tell you..

Well, well, well, where do we start?
I’ve been laid low by a chest infection which has left me tired and breathless and unable to work or even walk properly. I barely had the energy to lift my head off the pillow on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I’ve been having lots of vitamins and hot drinks, and done lots of steam inhalations, and hopefully I’ll be back to full fitness by the middle of the week.

Right, hopefully anyone from the supermarket will have stopped reading this by now so I can switch back to ’Truth Mode’:  

The ‘chest infection’ was really just a bit of a cold, but we desperately needed to get ready for the house move and we were running out of time and we were getting stressed with a capital S so I decided to be a bit naughty. So I took a walk down Sickie Street.
It did the trick too, because we’re bang on schedule now for everything coming up in the next few weeks. Most of our stuff is packed away already. We’d kind of forgotten that most of the things we’ve been using here belong to David and Becky so once we got into it there wasn’t really that much to do. One van will be enough to move us out, and Wallpaper Tom is kindly lending us one of his. He’s also lending us a small bit of his warehouse to lock our stuff away in while we’re ‘between houses’. He really is very kind. But then, Philippa works incredibly hard for him and she hasn’t had a pay rise since she started so it’s the least he can do really. 
I can’t believe we move out in less than two weeks! Now we’re sorted it’s becoming a bit exciting, but up until last weekend it was terrifying. But we sat down together and wrote a list of exactly what needed doing, and there wasn’t as much as we thought, and we were able to tick them off as we did them and see that we were making progress! We’ve booked ourselves a few days in a Travelodge (which we got pretty cheap by booking nice and early) so we’ll have a few days there after we move out. Then we’re off to Tunisia for a week! Then we’re going to stay with Philippa’s cousin Sally for a bit (they have a nice spare room that they have offered us free of charge) Then we move into a house called “The Willows” on December 8th! It’s our first appointment with the house-sitting agency! The couple that own it run a fish and chip shop during the summer, then bugger off to Portugal for three months to avoid the Winter weather. Can’t say I blame them. They get to bask in the sun for a while, and we get to live rent-free in a very nice detached cottage on the outskirts of Norwich!
Bargain.  

RC 3-11-13