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It's (nearly) all over
Mar. 28th, 2025 07:06 pm Two months after selling my house and moving into my ex's flat in Egremont (he lives elsewhere, I hasten to add), I have completed my purchase of a flat in Whitehaven. There's still a lot to do: the flat walls are currently bright white and I want something less blinding to my eyes: mossy cave will be more relaxing. Not even Farrow and Ball offer mossy cave as an option but after living with swatch cards of every shade of green for a few days, I've found a nice, darkish, restful matt shade of olive and had a few litres mixed. I've also sourced a handyman willing to paint for me. He'll start Monday, so I'll try to get the furniture out of storage later on next week then I can see how much space I have for a sofa bed etc. The following week I'll move myself across from Egremont with my bedroom and kitchen stuff slowly and decorously and then it really will be all over. I'm looking forward to shopping for new bits such as curtains for my bedroom, towels which aren't patchy from top up dyes, replacements for some worn out kitchen stuff and living in a tidy house rather than a charity shop show room. The neighbours came around to say hello whilst I was gloating in my new place this afternoon, and they seem lovely Lots of boring, time-consuming change of address notifications to make the most important of which will be acquiring a residents' parking permit. I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to most: having my books accessible, being re-united with all my crafting bits or being able to have a bath rather than a shower-miraculously I'm not on a water meter.
In other news, my mother-in-law died recently and she asked that her engagement ring went to my eldest daughter and her eternity ring to my middle child. As they needed cleaning and middle daughter needed a stone reset in a ring, my broken engagement rings went to the jewellers to be fettled,too.They were ready for collection today and on putting them on, I discovered I'd only had one resized. Naturally, I got the originally sized ring on, but there it is stuck until I oil my fingers. My finger is indented from wearing a wedding ring for so many years so it's not uncomfortable but resizing it needs putting on my todo list so it can be removed for washing up etc.
My cat is still unsettled here with a preference for being under the floorboards, It took several attempts to block the first hole she found, but we succeeded but an hour ago she pulled out the cardboard blocking a gap beneath a wine rack and disappeared into a four inch high space at speed. Hopefully she'll reappear by bedtime and we won't have to take up carpet and floorboards.I expect if I throw a handful of cat treats onto her cat tree, she'll appear before they've all landed.
Edited to add: Persephone the cat snuck out of the hole behind my back and went outside. Naturally I shut the outside door so she was stuck outside until I checked she wasn't there , just in case, as she didn't seem to be anywhere else
In other news, my mother-in-law died recently and she asked that her engagement ring went to my eldest daughter and her eternity ring to my middle child. As they needed cleaning and middle daughter needed a stone reset in a ring, my broken engagement rings went to the jewellers to be fettled,too.They were ready for collection today and on putting them on, I discovered I'd only had one resized. Naturally, I got the originally sized ring on, but there it is stuck until I oil my fingers. My finger is indented from wearing a wedding ring for so many years so it's not uncomfortable but resizing it needs putting on my todo list so it can be removed for washing up etc.
My cat is still unsettled here with a preference for being under the floorboards, It took several attempts to block the first hole she found, but we succeeded but an hour ago she pulled out the cardboard blocking a gap beneath a wine rack and disappeared into a four inch high space at speed. Hopefully she'll reappear by bedtime and we won't have to take up carpet and floorboards.I expect if I throw a handful of cat treats onto her cat tree, she'll appear before they've all landed.
Edited to add: Persephone the cat snuck out of the hole behind my back and went outside. Naturally I shut the outside door so she was stuck outside until I checked she wasn't there , just in case, as she didn't seem to be anywhere else
I entered very little this year just a cross stitch and a few cards but I got a first and a third so that paid the entry fee for daughter Emma and myself. I usually do well with photographs in the handicrafts and art category but I haven't taken many recently ( the difference between a pocket camera which went everywhere with me and a basic dslr which is a considered addition to the pile of stuff which accompanies me everywhere.) and I couldn't face trawling through the archives of photos on the computer. Next year I will be organised. I say this every year. I nostalgically visited the vegetable monsters in the children's class and remembered my early morning trips to Tesco to buy huge quantities of useful veg to make these with the kids on the morning of the show. From memory eyes were always grapes skewered to carrot coins. I was very pleased that a small child named Bertie did well in the Children's classes. After the prize giving, many of the vegetable and flower exhibits are auctioned off for Charity so I spent yesterday making my traditional marrow casserole using a marrow from the show ( not one of the giant monsters weighing in the tens of pounds)
