For those of you familiar with the picture on the left will realise that we are moving to Laugharne the town where Dylan Thomas lived for the latter part of his life... I actually grew up in Laugharne and my parents still live there... so it's a kind of homecoming for me... it's a sleepy little town right next to the sea or should I say Estuary.... it's going to be nice to wake up to the "ding" "ding" of the town clock again (its a very distinctive "ding" trust me) :) We have been buzzing about like blue bottomed flies in this house packing boxes, throwing stuff away, burning stuff we don't want to turn up on a dump.... we've been pretty ruthless, but it does feel good to get rid of stuff that's been hanging around for ages, old paper work, old insurance documents, seven year old bank statements, computers bits and pieces and old computers I lugged around with me, all gone...
The only problem is I think I've thrown out my mobile phone.... I hope I haven't, I'm hoping it turns up in some box we unpack when we get to the new house.... which is enormous, we fell in love with the place as soon as we walked in .... it has a huge kitchen, with a big rayburn in it, gas oven, gas hob, granite work tops, very nicely done out...
All the enormous bedrooms have en suite shower/bath/toilet... Freya already loves the place because it's close to the park with the whirly slide as she calls it.... so no doubt I'll be getting dragged down there at all hours...
As much as I love this place where we are now for it's isolation and lack of neighbours ... it's not doing the kids much good.... arranging sleep overs and visits is becoming a major logistical nightmare... then you have to drive miles to pick them up.... I think I will have to wait for desolation and idyllic peace and no neighbours for a few more years yet..... besides once Freya is a bit older and less of a handful we have handy baby sitters on the doorstep ;¬)
All the enormous bedrooms have en suite shower/bath/toilet... Freya already loves the place because it's close to the park with the whirly slide as she calls it.... so no doubt I'll be getting dragged down there at all hours...
As much as I love this place where we are now for it's isolation and lack of neighbours ... it's not doing the kids much good.... arranging sleep overs and visits is becoming a major logistical nightmare... then you have to drive miles to pick them up.... I think I will have to wait for desolation and idyllic peace and no neighbours for a few more years yet..... besides once Freya is a bit older and less of a handful we have handy baby sitters on the doorstep ;¬)
Anyway I will be offline for a while whilst our ISP sort themselves out... we are due to resurface online on or around the 20th August apparently .... (yeah of course) one thing for certain we are a mere stones throw from the BT exchange (literally) and I will cut off both of my arms if we don't achieve over 7Mbit (there may be some blood spilt as I might regret that statement) ....
We are all looking forward to the move.... well except Xbox boy ... he isn't chuffed that he now has to travel even further to visit his girlfriend.... ahhh well I'm sure the extra 15 minutes on the bus won't kill him......but at least with the regular bus service the taxi of mum and stepdad will cease... no excuse now...
"Oh dear you missed the last bus..... unlucky!!!" I've walked to Laugharne many a time after missing the last bus in my youth.... let's not break the tradition :)
We are all looking forward to the move.... well except Xbox boy ... he isn't chuffed that he now has to travel even further to visit his girlfriend.... ahhh well I'm sure the extra 15 minutes on the bus won't kill him......but at least with the regular bus service the taxi of mum and stepdad will cease... no excuse now...
"Oh dear you missed the last bus..... unlucky!!!" I've walked to Laugharne many a time after missing the last bus in my youth.... let's not break the tradition :)
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Freya less of a hand full DREAM ON! :) b
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