Freyja and Simon came to my place on Saturday.
I had acquired a skip in readiness.
And we tackled the garage.
Simon armed himself with one of my FOUR hammers (Why do I have four hammers? Why did Jim have four hammers? I may need to have a hammer cull!). Freyja armed herself with gardening gloves. I armed myself with a broom. And Freyja and I moved out and then Simon smashed up everything that was going in the skip. We swept the garage floor. Freyja arranged the furniture that was staying. We annoyed a large number of daddy longlegs spiders. We did not see many other (proper?) spiders.
And then the skip looked like this:
And the garage looked like this:
And the car fits in:
There was room in the skip for more stuff. Which was just as well. It was very windy on Sunday morning and the fence panel by the mail boxes at the front of the drive blew down. I heard a loud noise outside from the kitchen and went to investigate. Freyja and Simon had just come back from Buninyong and were looking at it as I came out the front door. We have put the panels and the top bit in the skip.
There is still room so I am planning to start moving garden junk this afternoon.
We had lunch in the Thai cafe in Mount Clear on Saturday, before tackling the garage. We had baked cauliflower with butter beans for dinner. And on Sunday Pat joined us for lunch and we feasted on a lentil taco stew that I made and a chilli con tofu that Freyja and Simon made. We had roast potatoes, corn chips and salady things with them. It was all very delicious.
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Authentic Thai food |
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A nod towards Mexican food |
I have been thinking about how to organise the selling of this place and moving into a new place, if I am not intending to buy until I have the money for this place in my bank account. I had been giving serious thought to renting a place in Docklands or somewhere nearby for six months, starting soon. Or maybe taking a "long" rent in an AirBnB, which might be more practical and would definitely be more flexible. THEN I thought - if I put this place on the market in May, let's say it takes until at least July or August to sell, then lets say the buyer wants a 90 day settlement - if all that happens, I might not start looking seriously until November or December or even into 2026. It might be a bit hasty to run off and rent somewhere now, especially since I would have to find something to buy and then arrange a 60 or 90 day settlement myself.
I think I might wait to rent somewhere until I have a firm offer on Tani.
This is not a reason to stall, delay or pause the Getting Ready to Move project, although I might not pack quite all my worldly possessions just yet