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[pebblerocker]

Hello internet. I still exist.

In a week's time I'm moving house. That's always stressful. I've been lucky enough to stay in one house for seven or eight years and I don't want to pack up everything, I want to pull the blankets over my head and hide forever. The new house is nice though; it has insulation and double glazing, and when I visited it after it had been shut up all day with the sun blazing down it was still nice and cool inside - unlike the tupperware box of a house where I live now.

Geoffrey continues to expand his hunting repertoire. He has cut down a bit on the earthworm hobby and has in the last few weeks carried in a couple of young birds, a mouse or two and a frog, many of which were completely unharmed and successfully released. He's in the habit of carrying his captives straight into the bathroom and gloating over them in there, giving us plenty of time to effect a rescue. The frog (species identified as a green and golden bell frog) survived unscathed, despite being carried who knows how far in Geoff's teeth, and we took it to the lake where it is presumably happy and better educated than before.

I'm keen to get back into Blake's 7 and start posting about it - though at my rate the Adventures with the Wife and Blake blog will outstrip me rapidly. Currently I'm progressing through Due South series 1 with much enjoyment, except that the 1971 Buick Riviera got blown up and I felt too sad to go on to the next episode. The car in a cop show is always practically a main character. No chance of me running out of Due South because there are so many episodes to a series!

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[vilakins]

Insulation and double glazing? Wow. We don't even have a ceiling, just rafters. I assume this place is almost new, then?

[pebblerocker]

Yes - the new building code may make houses more expensive but I think it's good to enforce better quality. Only the very richest people would splurge on double glazing if it wasn't compulsory; there are plenty of cheaply-built houses in place already. I've heard of a lot of people in my area struggling with asthmatic children, damp poorly-insulated housing, and landlords who are only interested in cosmetic fixes, even with the retrofitting subsidy available.

I'm very, very lucky to be getting this new house.

[feng_shui_house]

Good luck with your moving! I've never moved and the mere THOUGHT of packing up everything makes me quake.

[pebblerocker]

My parents had to move around a lot when I was young. I lived in 6 houses in 3 years; I crave stability.

[spiralsheep]

Good luck with the move! Few things are worth voluntarily moving house but the temptation of double-glazing must rank high on that list.

[pebblerocker]

Thank you. I try to look on it as an opportunity to get rid of some junk and organise my cupboards from the ground up - not that I like either of those things, but I like the results.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Moving is always stressful... I haven't for a couple of decades now, have a feeling if I was to now the sheer STUFF I would need to take with me would be terrifying...

Focus on how wonderful it'll be when you've done it.

[pebblerocker]

It will be wonderful! I've already packed up a lot of clothes and nearly all the books are in boxes... it will be interesting to find all the things I've forgotten I even had.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah dear, moving! My granny used to say that is was better to have a fire in the house that that.:-) However I hope your new house will be a good and freindly place to live in!
Ha! I can see that your Geoffrey might be a far-away reletive to my Oliver: their hunting habits are quite similar though Ollie hasn´t seen a frog yet. I wonder how will Geoffrey put up with changing his territory?
Good luck!

[pebblerocker]

There's a large maize paddock over the fence from the new house. I think all the cats will be very happy once they start exploring between the stalks and finding mice! First they have to cope with being shut inside for a week or two, and they won't enjoy that at all.