Dangerous!!!!

Normally I wouldn’t bother with an update halfway through the weekend, but so much has happened already that I feel I ought to at least try and get some of it down, so I can concentrate on having as much fun today without having to remember all the tiny details from Saturday, so that I can tell you about them on Monday!

This weekend is the weekend of moving house. Only without the actual house changing. This is the second time we’ve had to do this in this house now, the first time being when Kieran moved out two years ago, and we moved our bedroom from downstairs in the front room, upstairs to the back bedrooms.

This time its even more complicated! Andy has gone, so we had to empty his room of the furniture we didn’t want any more (like the bed, and the dressing table, and the chest of drawers etc), move a lot of the furniture and stuff from the front room (which looked like a bomb site, incidentally), swap over the furniture in the front room and the living room, tidy everything up, and await delivery of the dining room furniture.

It didn’t seem like it was going to be such a huge task, to be honest. But as we’ve progressed we’ve encountered lots of minor things that we ought to do as we’re going along, because then its done properly! So its taking longer than previously thought.

The plan is to get it all done by the end of today, and I believe that aim is still achievable. Ros is coming over this morning to help out, so an extra pair of hands and an extra brain should give us the edge. She will come in particularly handy I think when we start having to put everything away up here.

So, what did we achieve yesterday? Lets see. 

( What we got up to... )

( Funny things that happened )

All in all, quite an eventful day! I wonder what today will bring... I am currently moving stuff up from the front room to here, while Jamie does the washing up. Ros is arriving sort of 11ish, the Sainsburys delivery is coming between 11 and 12 (and bringing tasty bread and salad for lunch). Hopefully we’ll be able to get through today with much less in the way of calamity and shrieking and danger!

Progress!

So its been another hellish day of cleaning, moving, lifting, cleaning, drilling, hammering, tidying, cleaning and an awful lot of going up and down the stairs.

However, the end result is worth it! We started this weekend with one room that was a complete tip, and three rooms that were perfectly functional. Now I have three rooms that are a tip, and one room that is perfectly functional!

I has a living room! All the furniture fitted in exactly as planned. We had no real difficulty getting furniture through the ridiculous combination of chimney breast, narrow door and under the stairs. The room is just the right size for a living room, we're just the right distance from the telly. The bookcases look great. And most of all - its incredibly clean and tidy!

The room that was the living room is now mostly empty - there's some stuff piled up in tidy heaps, and a piano, and the bookcases which haven't moved. To ease Mr Fidget through the changes, we've brought his old scratching post downstairs so he can get in and out of the window ok. The rest is just empty space. I shall order the dining table and chairs tomorrow, they should arrive next week. The sideboard will arrive mid-september.

Upstairs, there's lots of mess! The study is getting there, still piles of stuff all over the place, but that will take time to rehome. Most of its in the right place though. All the furniture is there. 

The bedroom isn't exactly useable right now - full of clothes that belong in the wardrobe in the study, musical instruments of largeness (Double Bass, Cello) that belong in the study, and lots of mess.

However, the worst of it is over! It will take a few weeks of doing little bits in the evenings, and at weekends, but we'll get there.

Fidget is very confused by the whole affair. He's spent most of the weekend out of the house, but he came in not long after Ros left, and was exploring the living room and having a brush and a cuddle. I'm sure he'll get used to it.

Everything probably still smells very wrong, as I imagine the removal of Andy's constant use of deodorant has drastically changed the overall basic house smell, which will take some getting used to for him. And we've hoovered lots, so will have removed a lot of the smells in the carpets and soft furnishings.Plenty of fuss and attention and love is what he needs!

I am very tired now, and my legs hurt a lot. We are currently watching a documentary about the Black Death, and then I imagine we will play some Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance, as we're having lots of fun with that.

One downside to the day though - the shelves I put up in the study fell down. Oops.