Heavens to Betsy but moving is exhausting, as if we didn’t all know! It’s going to be at least another week or two before I’m back to normal or as normal as my life ever is. My landline and internet are not going to be up and running until 1st August so I’m still having to pop into the Pilot Boat Inn next door.
There are great advantages to having them as neighbours and I’m thankful that it’s not a rowdy establishment. I stayed there for three days before I could actually move into the cottage and the rooms are excellent. Included in their restaurant menu are mussels accompanied by a cream sauce with white wine and Vermouth, which is to die for. In fact, I’m so besotted I’ve yet to try anything else on the menu.
As for the process of moving, when your mobility and dexterity are limited, it takes a great deal more time and effort to do what you can and organise help for what you can’t. My niece and sister-in-law are doing as much as they are able but the stumbling block, which will come as no surprise to my friends, are the boxes of books. ‘I’m so sorry,’ I said to the delivery guys. ‘I promise to stop reading!’
The locals are charming and helpful while the supermarket provided me with the biggest laugh:
I look forward to ‘rest bite’ care as and when.
In the meantime…
Take care and keep laughing!
Best of luck to you, dear lady!
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I hope you get settled in soon, it sounds as if you’ve moved to a lovely place.
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Nice to live next to a pub, especially a non-rowdy one that serves great food! I still have stuff in boxes after four years, so you are doing better than me already.
Enjoy your new home, Sarah. I am sure it will prove to be a life-enhancing move.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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It would be life-enhancing now if the lettings agent hadn’t cocked up on the utilities. I had electricity for a few days but now I have neither electricity nor gas! x
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Thank heavens for the pub then! x
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The electricity is one of those stupid meters (they didn’t look like that in the 70s!) but I’ve just been up to the co-op on my very new mobility scooter (haven’t yet come across the battery charger for the old one in any of the boxes) and topped up the key and now, at least, have light again. Hallelujah!
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Oh no. The dreaded key meter! Best get rid of that as soon as you can. Go back to a normal meter and the price is a lot cheaper, as well as no danger of running out when the shop is shut. (Happened to me once, when renting. I had used my £5 emergency on the meter, and the shop was closed when I got there…x)
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That’s exactly what I’ll be doing, Pete, you can rest assured!
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Good to hear it. I think that a fisherman’s cottage in Bembridge sounds perfect, and I am duly envious. x
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