Moving
27 March 2006 @ 15:00
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I have just had one of the busiest weekends of my life! On Thursday, after a pleasent lunch with Chicken in our favourite Huddersfield pub The Head of Steam, I boarded a train to Sheffield. Then (an hour and a half later, bloody slow train!) one connecting to Chesterfield. I crossed the town centre and bused to Mansfield, collected the house key, got a bit of shopping (i.e. red wine) from Sainsbury’s and went to the house. I did a brief spate of packing things in to boxes and taking down pictures, before I settled with a glass of wine to watch some telly until my brother and sis-in-law arrived and we went for a curry in Kirkby. After curry and a ‘tweek’ of whiskey the next day was spent on packing and visits to the dump. It, of course, decided to pour for much of the day. After yet more red wine and ‘tweeks’ - and our final visit to the long loved John’s Chip sHop on the Nottingham Road - we began filling first the small (ish) CC Motors van (the same type which Chris and I were moved in last Spetember) and then the 7 tonnes TNT van! We worked from 7.30am to almost 14:00 filling (with plenty of tea breaks, of course, al la proper removals as my brother - a former member of this occupation - said!!!) and then we made the 4 hour + drive to a wet and windy Devonshire! We unpacked the smaller van in the rain and then called it a night. Up early on Sunday to unload the 7 tonner, then a quick lunch before a long, long drive from Swimbridge to Sheffield. Once there I caught a slow train to Leeds and then from there back to Huddersfield… Yes, a very long weekend indeed! And now back to the delights of essays and applications before our trip back to Devon for Easter next Monday!!!!!!!!! |
