Moving - again!

Up early this morning as a delivery arrives for Cara and Paul containing their most important worldly possessions that have been air-freighted over here on a super speedy delivery schedule.

Not long after that package arrives, Paul, Brian and now Martin all turn up from Liverpool ready for the off back down to Swindon where they have to pick up the keys to their rental property that they've hired until they find somewhere suitable to purchase.

With the car loaded up it's apparent that I'll have to make the trip in the Yaris as well so that all the stuff can be transported, so whilst Cara, Paul, Charlie and Martin make a start on the trip Brian and I wait behind a while to give them a head start to get the keys so we can just roll up and unload later on.

I get a bite to eat before we go but it isn't too long before Brian and I are on the road driving to the rental property with a fully laden car. When we get there and despite my best efforts of bringing tea and milk for a brew it becomes apparent that although the rental is furnished it is only to the most mininal of standards so there isn't even a set of mugs to be found in the place. Apart from that, it's a nice house in a nice area! Anyway, with little to be done and no tea to be drunk Brian and I head back to Oxford so he can catch a train back home, and the others hit the shops to pick up some critical essentials.

Unfortunatly for Brian we miss the train he'd planned on getting due to some rather -rubbish traffic in Oxford, but we're both pretty sure there will be a frequent enough service that it won't be too much of a problem, so I drop him off eventually, we say our goodbyes and I try to extracte myself from Oxford city centre.

When I get home I catch up on email etc and get a call from Phil to say that he is now stuck in the Oxford traffic and will be late home so I waste an hour or so doing blog entries and other non important things.

When Phil finally makes it through the door I prepare tea and we sit down and catch up on some television since there hasn't been much of a chance to watch it lately and get an early night after hedging our bets on where our friends will ultimately end up purchasing a house - hopefully it'll be close enough for frequent visits!

Posted by Abi on the November 9, 2009 9:54 PM