Skip to main content

change is as good as a rest

Big news - life is ever changing and full of surprises!
We are moving house... back down south or at least its little way down nearer Leeds and family and to a house which we think hopefully is as nice as the one we are leaving... its a hard act to follow but somehow it feels right and while its come right out of the blue -it feels ok (ish)...

We will be very sad to leave the sea and our lovely community who made us so welcome, good neighbors, trees and rooks all the things that have made living here so special (sheep eating your plants - ducks sabotaging your sunflowers) but the new house appears to have several advantages, which hopefully will make up for these losses.

The new property is marginally bigger, it has a small 'garden room' and a large utility space freeing up the kitchen. There's a reasonably sized private sun catching outside space - may be even room  for the summerhouse. There is also a garage.  Its at the end of a small lane so nobody walks past or looks in and it opens onto fields and a farm... its in a small village just outside of Darlington.. its a little bit quirky, The whole set up is a bit like where we are now..10 mins of the A1... houses, farm and big house.. no amenities just post box and bus stop slightly nearer civilization but still out of the way... no sea view but open land all around and not far from the river. Just over an hour to family which is the main rationale for moving - our grand children are growing so quick... and as close to Newcastle and observatory as we are now so Dr Fred can continue all his work..  Another advantage...there a Boyes in Darlo and Barnard castle so it just gets better every time I think about it!!
our new (rather misty) view from the front of the house

It has all happened very quick and very unexpectedly last week I was rescuing paving slabs to build the summerhouse on the paddock - no intention of moving.. but there was always a niggle..... and then pretty much out of nowhere - a chance find... my head is reeling but I'm excited and ready to get organised although god only knows how its a good job i.m a minimalist.....

So this last week has been a completely new experience for me.. I have never moved house 'properly ' before - I didn't really leave home until I was over 50 and then I moved slowly a bit at a time living in two houses part time.  when we finally made the move to where we are now - again we did it a bit piecemeal - one big van load and then over the next 5 years bringing stuff as and when I found it on visits back to my other house (which I rent out).

Its a bit of a shock to be honest ha ha... the realisation of how much stuff we have accumulated and starting to pack it all up is a mammoth task even from such a wee cottage as we have....... emptying the walls in my studio is quite sad but I can envisage all my bits and pieces finding a new home in a new space and all will be well.

I may be very busy for a few weeks so postings may be erratic - internet stuff has to be sorted all those pesky things that require attention when moving.. watch this space....

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Almost last chapter... In which our Go Stargazing team watch Astonishing Aurora Borealis seen from the deck of the Astonishing Borealis!!!

The weather brightened considerably and the snowy peaks lining our sail down the fjiords  looked glorious and sparkly in the sunshine against a (mainly) blue sky back drop.   More awesome scenary.... the Go Stargazing team wrapt up their lectures ... only searching for the illusive Northern Lights remained.  The tension from the night before dissolved in the sunshine the forecast for Aurora borealis was looking fairly positive - it was the captains farewell cocktsil party so everyone had their gladrags on.. We ate dinner and sky remained clear so we headed back to our room and donned as many layers as we could move in and proceeded to deck 10 in anticipation of stars and northern lights..... it did not dissappiont - just we got there as the bridge announced that the lights could be seen on the starboard side of the ship. It was stunning. Slowly the intensity built. The auroral green became brighter and bigger areas appe...

Vigo

We left the ship to explore Vigo. Its a much larger place then we expected... although tbh I hadn't given ut a lot of thought. Its a real mish mash of old and new and having got a map from tourist info we decided to follow the walking trail to the Monte Castro... the highest point of the town.  Most of the town was pretty much as everywhere else... lots of traffic... lots of people... one or two interesting buildings and a lot of shopping. We headed to the art gallery - this has been a year of gallery visits so we we seen o reason to change now.  The Museo de Marco is housed in the towns ex prison building and its very grand. In fact, I think that on this occaision the building might have been more interesting than the art....  Although the visiting exhibition by Susanne S D Themlitz was strangely compelling. It was a huge varied collection of eclectic items... found, salavaged, manipulated and arranged in lots of ways - weirdly inspiring - and mostly enjoyable to look at...

verdant lushness

Its a never ending island hop... today we hopped of the boat at Kingstown, on the island St. Vincents and Grenadine. Once through the usual port duty free - cheap booze and diamonds to go milarkey we were straight into the town... crazy noisy smelly chaos... refreshingly no tat shops for tourists, just local markets and street traders all vying for local sales.  Music blasting from everywhere, cars (very battered and often very pimped) all over the roads - parked in the middle of the street, loading, unloading, chatting seemingly oblivious to the total traffic jam caused behind them...  We walked through this mayhem - the temperatures were rising probably about 30 degrees - tourists evident by trying to walk on the shady side of the street - even when we turned off the main drag and there were less people it was still like carnival time with music blasting everywhere. Its very atmospheric and mostly promotes a good vibe although I have heard '3 little birds' everywhich way a...