Wednesday - Packing Up Day
We’ve moved and got into our new house safely and hurray, we’re back online! Going to take me a little while to catch up with what we’ve been doing though. I almost blogged last week on A’s laptop, but then I couldn’t remember my log in details for Blogsome. Here’s the first installment.
The packers arrived earlier than we’d been told to expect them, about 9.15am. We were at least up and dressed! They came in and did a quick tour, looked horrified and called for an extra person to come up from York to help. They started in the kitchen after almost packing all our shoes and coats, which we hadn’t put into the car out of the way yet.
The house was freezing with all the doors open and nowhere was safe for L to crawl, so M, L and I bailed out to the community centre coffee shop and left A to it with the removals men. They were OK but not very chatty and I hate having people in the house. Last time we moved it was a different firm and they were really friendly and easy to have around, they chatted to M, listened to what we were saying and did a great packing job, but this lot were distinctly “average”.
We bumped into an acquaintance in the cafe who invited us round to hers for the afternoon, so after some TV and meeting A for lunch we went round to her house and M played with her kids while we chatted and kept L out of mischief.
Mid afternoon we went home and the removals men were long gone and the house was all packed up apart from the mattresses, TV, fridge, vac and drinks things. I don’t know what all the fuss was about, they could have moved us in 2 days instead of 3 easily. The house was cold and echoey and didn’t feel like ours anymore, so we went out to Pizza Hut for tea and then watched Chicken Little. We had an early night and barely stayed awake to watch Desperate Housewives, but then didn’t sleep well in nervous anticipation for Thursday.
I’ll blog the next bit later, I’d better catch up with A a bit before I carry on. I might password some posts so I can be a bit more specific and I’ll email the password to regulars I know about, but feel free to ask for a password.
welcome to new house, new area and a safe arrival!!
Comment by HelenHaricot — February 26, 2006 @ 8:59 pm
welcome to your new home
me please for a password!
Comment by Nic — February 26, 2006 @ 9:23 pm
glad you arrived ok! Can I have a password too if that’s ok?
Comment by Kirsty — February 26, 2006 @ 9:31 pm
I’m here
Glad to hear you’re there safe and sound.
Comment by jax — February 26, 2006 @ 10:42 pm
Glad you arrived safely
Hope the settling in is going ok.
Would love a password if needed to keep up with everything
Comment by Alison — February 27, 2006 @ 2:09 am
Glad it went OK. Removers can be a nightmare. Can I have your new postal address as well, please.
Comment by Joyce — February 27, 2006 @ 10:36 am