What are you all up to

That's what we did. 

The new one should be in and used before we head off on Tuesday. There'll be problems for some if it's not!!

Thanks Helen, we should get away ok, all being well.

You're just jealous that she won't let you have a turn on it!!

Glad that it's all fixed and up and running.

Great job there, Moulesy. I just hope that you're not having the weather that we are at the moment, as it's been raining all day, and both Flyte and myself are sick of getting wet!!

Same here nellie. It hasnt stopped. We have had to have the lights on all day. Fed up with it now.

Millie

Has the dishwasher stopped working completely or just not doing something it should.  Sometimes dishwashers have a series of floats which action parts of the program and if they get gunged up they can stop things happening so you might be lucky that its just a clean out. Obviously if its more electronic or electrical your second option might be the better option. Good luck with it.

David

Yesterday and today we have been helping DD with the move to the new house, so are now exhausted.

The movers came to pack yesterday, but I think they underestimated how much packing was needed as they did not start till 11.30am, having been to another job first, so did not get everything packed yesterday.

The original plan was to pack and move the boxes yesterday, then the furniture today, but instead we ended up eating dinner yesterday surrounded by boxes and with no space to dismantle various bits of furniture.

Movers returned at 8am today to finish packing and start bringing stuff down to the ground floor......it is a 3 storey townhouse........then the actual moving was all done in the afternoon.  OH was in charge of distributing the boxes and furniture in the new house, while DD and I were back at the old place dismantling various items.  There was less to dismantle than we expected, thankfully, as it was really surprising how they were able to manoeuvre some of the larger heavy things down the stairs.

At the new place, with 2 rooms unable to be used meantime,  there are now boxes piled everywhere and furniture fitted between the boxes, pretty much a scene of total chaos, it will take ages for them to find anything again!!

Callum has a reasonably clear room to sleep in, his stuff is in neatly stacked boxes, and he has cupboards to unpack into, his Mummy and Daddy do have a bed to sleep in, but are unlikely to find all their clothes for a few days!

The kitchen stuff is all piled up in the hall, the contents of the loft have filled 2 huge cupboards, the bathroom stuff is somewhere in the utility room, and the study contents are lined up along the hall.

Tomorrow and Friday we return to the old house to dismantle various cupboards that we will move in the car, and take down curtains, lampshades and odds and ends, then they will be spending the weekend cleaning before handing over to the new owners on Monday, while I get on with the woodwork at the new house.

Looking forward to a day off on the 14th (OH's birthday) and the 25th!

Kj, its been a hard slog to get to this stage, it is all uphill from here.

Reading your post brought back memories of our 17 moves of house. Living out of boxes for weeks before the move, while I cleaned the quarter.

Then weeks of unpacking the boxes and finding places for everything, while looking after 2 small children.

Your daughter is lucky to have you around to help out with everything. I used to have to do that kind of thing about every 18mths. I always had a packing list and would pop one inside the box and keep another copy at hand for the unpacking, all boxes marked on the outside 1 of ..., 2 of... etc. very organised but just as hard work.

OH didn't get time off work to help, so once the children were in bed, he would screw the lids down on the MFO boxes (big wooden chests) that I had packed during the day and then he would make up another couple of boxes for me to pack the next day.

I once had to do all that on my own while he was on exercise in Canada. At that time the children were 4 years old and 18 mths old, we lived in a 3rd floor flat in north Germany. 

That sounds like really hard work TG.  We have only moved 3 times and that was bad enough.  At least DD will not need to move again for a very long time, and if/when she does we will not be around to get roped in to help!

The weather today was not great, but fortunately no heavy rain, and they were able to back the vans right up to the front door as they only use smallish vans, not the usual huge removal ones.  No stairs as it is the ground floor of a converted 1920s house, so unloading went quite quickly.

It is surprising just how many boxes of stuff they have, did not look like anything as much when it was all neatly stashed in cupboards and furniture.

The lounge where their big corner sofa is sitting is much larger than the old lounge, but now it is in place the sofa looks much bigger than before, which is really odd. It has unequal length sides, a 2 seater and a 3 seater, but it looks like I will need to reverse the sides so it fits better.  Fortunately, being from Ikea, it is an easy job to assemble it the other way round.

No doubt once everything is in the right places and the boxes emptied, it will all look much more spacious.

 They are doing Christmas, so there will be a lot of work needed in the next 2-3 weeks just to get the main rooms in the house organised. I cannot see that their own bedroom will be ready this side of Christmas, and their bathroom will take a lot longer.

The packers were very efficient, packing everything in sight, DD went to have a shower this morning, only to find that all the towels had been packed!

Boxes are all marked with which room they came from, but as they had 3 bathrooms, it is not  clear which boxes came from where, so may be a while before she finds the towels.

Thanks David.  It is not washing the dishes properly and OH has cleaned everything he can find to clean with no luck.  It is a Bosch that we have had a very long time so it doesn't owe us anything but it would be nice to get it repaired rather than have to buy a new one.  We shall see.  No sign of the Bosch engineer yet though.

Kj. Best of luck to you all with all the unpacking.  We moved into our present house 30 years ago and the memories are still vivid of waking up the day after we moved in and trying to make order out of chaos!! However, it is exciting that your daughter and SIL are now in their new home.

Hope you can get the dishwasher sorted Millie, sometimes I think I could go back to sink washing but not if we've got visitors!

Kj. Pleased to hear your daughter and family have made the big move. Some of our neighbours have just moved round the corner from their previous house but still said they never want to see a cardboard box again. I know that feeling too.