Packing up...

Making a start packing our things up, starting with the pictures.
Taken all the pins out, filling any holes up, sanding & painting over with the right paint which I have left over.

Three good things:
1. Setting off early tomorrow to drive to Manchester Airport to pick our granddaughter Alex & her fiancé up, the have been to the Nashville Country Music awards & New Orleans. Staying with us for a week or two on their way home to NZ.
2. I stocked the freezer up for hungry people!
3. Our last tenants left a load of moving boxes in the shed!

[Joan Robillard]

If only you could wave a magic wand and it would be over.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Ooh Pat - I am sure your happiness will be mingled with apprehension , sadness and lots of happy memories as you dismantle and look at all your pictures . It will be good to have Alex and fiancé there for a week or two, to give a little hiatus in the mad packing etc ! Doesn't a room look so alien without all your familiar belongings around you !

[Pat Knowles]

@beryl I was just looking for you Beryl.....yes you’re right it looks completely alien & this is the room that has the gallery of photos all along one wall so it’s strange. All in boxes now in newspaper. Hoping that the holiday makers might give a hand with stuff out of the attic, such a long way to bring them down three flights of stairs!

[Mave]

You need help when you're moving. It's hard work and very emotional

[Brennie B]

Such a lot of work .emotional too.but look forward to new place is exciting.nashville country awards! So jealous!

[Pat Knowles]

@joansmor Yes that would be a treat Joan, strangely I’m quite enjoying it at the moment but I’m not pushed fir time yet might be different later on!

[Pat Knowles]

@mave You could be right Mave....I’m sure it will be emotional the nearer it gets! Helps that we’re only moving three quarters of a mile away!

[Sarah Bremner]

Oh....the pictures add so much meaning to rooms and the being of the family. But it is also good to refresh and tell the stories in different ways. How lovely to have Alex and other half coming just at this point in time.

[Diana Moss]

I hope you will find room for all your pictures in your new home Pat

[Margaret Pengelly]

I see the peonies are still hanging on. Good luck with the packing. Hope it is not too exhausting.

[Pat Knowles]

@brennieb So was I Brenda...& her friends spend NYE at county music festivals.

[Maggiemae]

The many pictures I found were difficult to find a place on the new walls. Most are now in a cupboard. You will miss them. Take care down those 3 lots of stairs -no accidents allowed!

[Bep]

Moving can be very emotional... Due to hubby's work we had to move several times.

[Linda]

Packing for a move is no fun. You find things that you forgot you have sometimes.

[Babs]

A house really begins to look sad as the pictures are removed from the walls. I don't envy you the packing. We have had 16 moves, three of them international, but to be honest it was the closest moves that were the most stressful because on those moves you just don't pack 'everything' there are some things you decide you can take in your cars and that takes just as much time and effort.

[Taffy]

Oh, this is a huge task. Good luck! Well documented step of the move preparation.

[Jane Pittenger]

Oh I don’t envy you this task

[Pat Knowles]

@onewing Got it in one Babs!

[bkb in the city]

That is always a huge job

[carol white]

Good luck 🍀 with the packing up

[Steve Pooley]

Lots of jobs to do but will be worth all the hard work

[Sue Cooper]

Moving is very emotional, exciting but scary and definitely hard work. It will be lovely to have Alex to stay for a while, with Simon. It must be hard having your grandchildren live so far away.