Lois and I are currently living in a new-build home on a half-finished street in the middle of a large new housing estate - when it's all finished there'll be 300 houses here. This situation has a lot of drawbacks, to put it mildly. One is that some days it's really difficult to drive anywhere because of holes in the roads where underground piping etc is being installed.
Luckily the whole site goes pretty quiet on Saturday and Sunday, which is nice. And this morning we leave the house for the first time in about 3 or 4 days. We drive the 7 miles over to Upton-on-Severn to do some food shopping in the Warner mini-supermarket.
we drive the 7 miles over to Upton to shop at the local
Warner's mini-supermarket
Warners mini-supermarket at Upton-on-Severn
In the house to the west side of us live a young couple in their 30's probably, Matt and Timera, of which the guy, Matt, has his own company and he works from home most of the time. On the east side is a single guy called Laurence, who we suspect works at the nearby top-secret defence and security contractor Qinetiq.
We liked it so much we bought the company! We liked it so much that we're thinking of ordering another one for our bedroom - how's that for a vote of confidence haha!
We've met only one other resident here in the 3 weeks we've been around. That's Jonathan, an American guy, also with his own company, who mostly works from home. He lives round the corner, and we wouldn't normally have met him but for the fact that our Radio Times magazine, which lists TV and radio programmes, a magazine for which we pay a not-very-cheap subscription, has 3 times been delivered to his house in error, and he's been kind enough to bring it round to us, which is nice.
the current issue of Radio Times
11:00 When Lois and I get back from shopping in Upton, Jonathan drops by to hand over our Radio Times for next week, which was delivered to him in error again. We reassure him that we've notified the Radio Times office about the faulty addressing of our magazine, and that it won't happen again. But it's nice to have got to know him - he's split up with his partner and lives on his own, although he sees his 2 daughters, 11 and 12 years old, every day, he says, because they go to school nearby.
14:00 At last the time of the week we look forward to arrives: Saturday afternoon, when, if we get the chance, we take a leisurely shower followed by a leisurely nap in bed. This somehow seems to set the world to rights.
One of the snags of moving into a new-build home is that there's always a to-do list as long as your arm, even if it's no more than to "write another to-do-list", but as soon as Saturday lunchtime arrives, all the to-do-lists goes out of the window, which is nice!
But having said that, we've got some wonderful "achievements" to be happy about. Doesn't our new IKEA "Billy" Bookcase look nice, for instance?
our shiny new IKEA "Billy" bookcase with
its dazzlingly tasteful "trinket shelves" !
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