And I'm guessing, most of us would hold our hands up and give a big fat "Yes!" to that question, wouldn't we, but for me and my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois, that "pleasure" (!) is yet to come - but it awaits us, like, imminently (almost!), as I write these words, would you believe [you don't say! - Ed].
Yes, guess what profession comes in at no.5 on the latest chart of jobs for highly sensitive persons (my super-tip: on Sundays, always check p.94 of "the Onion" for today's Top Ten, so you're always up-to-date with this particular "hot potato" (!)) Yes coming in at number 5 this week, and tipped for the top next week, it's "removal firm employee", which at last is being recognised for its artistic side, and thank heavens for that.
And here's a "supplementary" for you... did YOU upset your movers" at all at any point during the moving process? Movers are normally quite sensitive folks, aren't they. It's the kind of profession you don't go into unless you've got those long "artistic" fingers, for starters! Am I right? Or am I right (!) !
Sanity rules ok!
Lois and I are guessing that our movers will be in a thoroughly bad mood (!) when they finally arrive at our new house, so we plan to "sugar the pill" a bit by making them several cups of tea, but only, of course, when their work's all done and dusted.
As a further "sweetener" (no pun intended!) we are also hoping to work out in advance which rooms of the new house that we want all our furniture and belongings to go into, as we've realised that it will make the movers' job, like, tons easier if they don't have to listen to Lois and me "discussing" this issue for every single item, to put it mildly!
And before you scoff, let me ask you, did you see the story in this morning's Onion News (West Worcestershire) print edition, which, if you live in deepest West Worcestershire probably "plopped" through your letterbox today, as it did in mine and Lois's (!).
And here's another super-tip from Yours Truly. When your movers arrive, arrange to have an aroma of freshly-baked bread in your house. It always puts them in a better frame of mind for you to break the news to them that you've got a house-and-a-half's worth of possessions for them to "lug into their van" and then "lug out again at the other end"!
You see - here's the thing... Lois and I are both 78 now, and planning to move from our 'humble abode' here in Malvern, Worcestershire to a house in Liphook, Hampshire, to be near our daughter Alison and family. And Liphook is 136 miles away from here, so our movers aren't going to like that aspect for starters!
For that reason we're also taking, like, a billion tons of sugar and packs of super-strong "Barry's Tea", the super strong Irish tea that's been making waves recently in the "builders' tea" category.
we buy our movers, like, a billion (that's almost a legion!)
of boxes of Barry's Tea, and (almost) a billion bags of sugar to go with it all
And if you were looking in through the window of our house in Malvern today, you may have seen me drawing a few, what-I-call, "room plans" on squared paper. I definitely saw somebody pass somewhat shiftily by - was it you? I thought so (only joking, by the way!).
I start drawing a few what-I-call "room plans"
on special squared paper, starting with the big ones,
'Bedroom One' and 'Bedroom Two'
I thought I'd start with the easy ones: bedroom 1 will be where Lois and I will sleep, and I work out that it's no use planning anything other than our 5ft bed and a couple of bedside cabinets for that room, and I've decided, subject to Lois's approval, that the wall of mirrored drawers and cupboards that will face us as we lie in bed, will be the ideal place to store all our clothes. But your opinions welcome - postcards only, please (strict character limit: 10 or less!).
flashback to October 30th: we look round the house in Liphook
that we want to buy and visit Bedroom One. And today I get the sudden
brainwave: wouldn't those drawers and "cubby-holes" behind the mirrored
doors be the ideal place to store all our clothes? Your views welcome!
And that's it for Bedroom One. I feel a bit tired after planning that, so I may leave Bedroom 2 for another day, although I suspect we may end up planning something similar for this room, which our "blue sky thinking" is nudging us towards concluding that it would be the ideal place to sleep guest couples. Again, your views welcome!
October 30th: James our estate-agent (in the doorway), shows Lois and me
Bedroom Two, and today I'm thinking provisionally, and drawing inspiration
from the current owners' ideas, we could usefully put our second-biggest bed (4' 6")
and offer it to any guest couples who want to stay with us (if they're brave enough!)
Anyway that's enough "room planning" for one day, that's for sure. "Brain hurts!"
Time now for a coffee, perhaps! Also, I remember we've got our weekly whatsapp video call with our other daughter Sarah and her 11-year-old twins Lily and Jessica. Husband Francis is out talking to mortgage-brokers, because guess what, they're soon going to be buying their first house in Australia, after moving from Alcester, Warwickshire, at the beginning of September.
this morning's whatsapp video call with our daughter Sarah
in Perth, Western Australia, where the family moved in early September
Francis can't work any longer, for health reasons, and Sarah is doing two jobs to save up for the deposit - she's an accountant working for an agency in Perth, while distance-working online part-time, for her old accountancy firm in Evesham., Worcestershire.
Plus, they're economising in other ways, managing with plastic "camping" furniture borrowed from their friends, American ex-schoolteacher Charissa and her Australian husband Todd. And Charissa is at the moment also home-schooling both her own two kids, and Lily and Jessica at the same time.
our daughter Sarah, with her 11-year-old twins Lily (left)
and Jessica: the family is economising for their first Australian
house purchase by sleeping on blow-up beds and borrowing
their friends' plastic camping furniture - what madness!!!!
School years start in February in that crazy country (!), but the twins have just had their application accepted for places at the just-built shiny-new Primary School in the suburb of Yanchep, 30 miles north of Perth itself. Busy busy busy!
What a madness life is !!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!!
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