Tag: moving
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Chicory Keys
There's a special spot in my wallet where my "front door key" lives, but - despite the practical reasons to do so - I've resisted adding the Chicory House key in that spot. Instead, I've found myself keeping it in the "secondary key" spot, as a tiny reminder that the current state of affairs is a temporary one.
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Unpacked Kitchen
Today's mission in what we're calling the Chicory House - our home while our actual house gets repaired - was to unpack the kitchen. I think it's looking pretty good!
(The cardboard box you can see contains pans we brought with us that turn out to be incompatible with the induction hobs at the Chicory House, boo!)
Next weekend's mission will be to set myself up a workspace that isn't the conservatory dining table. 😬 -
The dog is concerned. Why, despite all her warnings, am I still letting these men take all of our (surviving) furniture?
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A French Bulldog sits on a lawn outside a house where a removals company is loading furniture into a van.
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F-Day plus 55
It's fifty-five days since my house flooded. Since then, I've lived in hotels, with friends, on volunteering retreats and - mostly - in a series of one- or two-week AirBnB-style short-term lets. It's been wild. It's also been wildly disruptive. To our work. To our kids. To our general stability.
Today, we make a change. Today … -
It's F-Day plus 35, and I'm spending a few hours working in the habitable part of our flood-damaged house while I'm "between" two AirBnBs.
The dog, who doesn't normally get to come upstairs, is sitting with me on the landing. Except she also wants to keep an eye on what's happening downstairs.
The result? Her back legs are sitting and her front legs are standing as she peers blepfully down the stairs.
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A champagne-coloured French Bulldog wearing a teal harness is on the top step of a cream-carpeted staircase. Her hind legs are folded so her bottom sits on the top step, but her forelegs are extended so she's standing on the one below. Her tongue is out in a full blep.
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6-12 Months
"How long should we plan on renting another house to live in?" I asked, warily.
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Heatmapping my Movements
Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.
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Rebuilding a Windows box with Chocolatey
As often happens when he moves house, Dan broke a PC. But thanks to package manager Chocolatey, he was able to get it back up-and-running in a fraction of the time he might have expected.
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Found GC4XEPP School Run
This checkin to GC4XEPP School Run reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A second quick geocache find while the 6 year-old and I took a stroll around the village, which - as of yesterday - became our home! Nice to see the lights here that'll help protect her during our …
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Found GC7XEZ9 Church Micro 12107...Stanton Harcourt
This checkin to GC7XEZ9 Church Micro 12107...Stanton Harcourt reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Moved to the village yesterday; found this cache quickly (after a glance at the hint) while out on a walk around our new neighbourhood. TFTC!
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Tour of our old house
We've only got a couple of days left before we move to our new house. In order that she and her little brother might better remember our old house, I encouraged our 6 year-old to record a video tour.
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Buying Another House
By the weekend, Dan hopes to have moved house. Again, but perhaps for the last time?
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Buying A House, Part 6
The epic conclusion to the Buying A House series, in which Alec comes over and helps Dan, Ruth, JTA and Matt move an incredible amount of furniture and boxes from New Earth to their new house: Greendale.
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 4
In Godzilla's fourth Family Vlog, a lost cat is recovered from under the floorboards and the secret history of Godzilla and Zara is uncovered. Here's my review, hastily and belatedly put together during my recent house move.
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Buying a House, Part 4 - Call To Arms!
Can you help Dan, Ruth and JTA to move house on 27th & 28th July? They need your help!