Monday, 18 April 2011
Moving House
A new dawn will start for us this Friday when we move to our 'new' home with new friends and neighbours. They say one of the biggest upheavals in anyone's life is to have a death in the family, a divorce or moving house but Peter and I have been for the past two weeks gradually moving there and not in one go as most people tend to do, this has made the task easier and pleasant. I have already moved the most delicate things like my china cupboard with all my precious Lladro figurines and my Wedgewood dinner set plus the Venecian chandellier which had to be disasembled piece by piece from our present ceiling and then I carefully washed each individual piece and delicately packed it, then it was transported over there and the electrician assembled it again and hunged at our new home, it took a whole day but it was worth it, as it looks simply marvellous. The new beds are also there, so today I will go to make the beds with the new bed linen and place the curtain poles in the bedrooms. Some clothes and furniture have already been transported there, so we can say we are half way done as we can comfortably stay there as it is right now. We are lucky in the sense that there will be more space at the new home than we have here right. The only hicup his been British Telecom who have already transferred my private line to the new house, or at least is in limbo as is neither here nor there since the telephones have not yet been connected at the new house so I'm incomunicado until the beginning of May. We have been promised by BT that we can retain the same telephone numbers so I hope that goes through alright as I have no desire to remember another set of three different telephone numbers. I think we will be very happy there as we already have friends and the last time we went to our new home we were made welcomed by a really nice group of ladies with whom we shared a joke and a laugh and we were informed that there will be a street party to celebrate the Royal Wedding in front of our home! I feel so happy to hear about this, as I have never been to a street party before. Everything here seems to be so unreal and happy. The town is self-sufficient as everything seems to be either in front of our home, along the road, behind our home (like the doctor's surgery) or around the corner. It is simply fantastic! this lovely market town is located at the foot of a castle where the views are of outstanding natural beauty. It also has a small museum where you can see the inside of a real house and how it used to be furnished long ago, with interesting memorabilia of the people who has lived there over the centuries and how life used to be then. The museum is run by volunteers. There are so many things to do as they have a calendar with lots of activities throughout the whole year and I can learn to do things I always wanted to do, like grow strawberries and cucumbers in an alotment for fun. There are cinema days where for a couple of pounds you can see a film and just across the road a new French restaurant has just opened too. The owner is French and he has a good reputation as a cheff since he owns another restaurant at a nearby town so this is very good news. Visitors come here every summer and I over-heard a lady saying: 'There aren't very many towns like this one left. It is such a pretty and quaint town that I wish I could live here' I just felt doubly lucky that we are going to move there this Friday, only two days to go! I'm so excited and the weather has turned sunny and pretty today with limpid blue skies. I can't believe our good luck!
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Hi Maria
This all sounds idyllic and I wish you and Peter every happiness in your new home. Finding somewhere that has the right balance between old-world charm and modern conveniences is very hard, so you have done well there. Also from the point of view of fitting in, one doesn’t want to be regarded as Johnny Come Latelys and newcomers, but one wants there to be a community spirit too, where people know each other but which isn’t narrow or exclusive, so it looks like you have the right balance there as well. I think if I were living there the top item to visit would be the castle and museum.
I am hoping that you won’t bump into Inspector Barnaby or Miss Marple, as this usually spells trouble!
Thank you very much for your kind wishes Robert. I think if you lived
here, you would also like the library as well as the town hall since they do all kinds of activities in there. I missed the Arabian carpets sale and also the antique fair they held but it is not only sales that they have, sometimes they have various courses in different subjects.
Hi Maria
Yes, for instance it's worth checking out whether the vicar has his churchyard mown a lot. Some vicars are leaving parts of their churchyards only lightly mown. That gives a chance for rare flowers and butterflies to gain a foothold where otherwise they wouldn't. Churchyards and railway embankments are two major refuges for threatened species.
Mmm.. That sounds nice. In our church yard there is The Robbers Grave. This is the story of a man who was accused of a robbery which he didn't commit and his last words before he was hanged were that the grass wouldn't grow on his grave and that turned out to be true! I will put roses on his grave.
I like the inscriptions, when I can make them out. I think that many churchyards have a yew tree growing at the entrance - the yew tree is poisonous and is traditionally the tree of death. Parish churches are interesting. They are humble but each one is unique.
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