01 December 2008

Waiting for my man


Porter Lane
Originally uploaded by
d_j_critchley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UpFGoJHwLI

After over a week without TV, phone and internet the installation guys are here setting things up. We had hoped they would be here last week but as we were moving from one supplier to another things weren't that straightforward. The good news though is that the phone number is the same.

The movers arrived early a week last Wednesday but even though we were moving less than a mile it took two trips and we didn't get to start unpacking in anger until late afternoon. We elected to move some of our things, like the bikes, but we also had to move all the food and liquids. After the movers left we were still left with a lot of unpacking and all in all it was a long day.

Thanksgiving saw us cleaning the old house before heading out with Roger and Lynn in the evening to Bilbo Baggins for dinner and some well deserved ale.

Helen is back in the UK now and I'm bimbling round the house doing the odd thing here and there as well as some last bits of Christmas shopping including buying crackers at TJ Max. This is one of the cultural oddities in that the US are, in general, unaware of this Victorian invention so they are difficult to get here. I don't even want to get started on mince pies and how much they cost when you do find them.

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