Been a very busy sausage this past couple of weeks, luckily I've enjoyed a period of rude health and been able to get quite a lot done without reverting to doddery old fucker mode and needing lots of little cat naps. I've also had help from my eldest son Callum who has been pitching in with decorating and trips to the dump. Nearly all the little nagging extant DIY jobs have been completed and the house is looking great, I find myself wondering why the bloody hell I only get round to them now just as we are about to hand the place over to tenants for X amount of years.
Jobs so far completed;
- 2 x bathrooms repainted and waterproofed with new mastic
- 1 x new shower guard fitted
- Kitchen repapered and repainted
- Kitchen worktop sanded and re-oiled /all joints resealed
- Porch repainted
- Sills stripped and reglossed
- Cellar door fixed and and repainted
- Bedroom #4 repainted
Still to do;
- Hall and staircase walls to be repainted
- Parts of lounge to be repainted
- Cellar to be cleared and repainted
- Milo's room repainted
- Carpets to be shampooed
Turns out that we have more shipping space than we thought, which is pretty much gonna negate the need to put stuff in storage, which is a GOOD THING as even at best case scenario it would have cost about £4800 over four years. So far we, well just I, have been quite brutal about what goes to the dump and a lot of stuff that I would have normally ebayed has been consigned to the hereafter.
We've found a lovely family who want to take on our house long term and they're also happy to adopt our Koi which is a weight off because I dunno what else we could have done with them. I've put the Disco on ebay, but no sensible offers so far - I had an offer from one comedian who told me he'd seen a car identical to mine on sale for £3800, so I told him he'd better go and buy it then because there's no fucking way I'm selling mine for that - given the short amount of time remaining before we go this may be something I'll come to regret!
The relocation company are coming this Friday to survey the house and get an idea of how much kit needs to be moved, we've been advised not to do any more packing as it is their thing, so we're happy to let them assume that burden. It also means they'll shift all the really tricksy onerous stuff that I was dreading having to do, like the cross trainer and the dirty big chaise longe up on the 2nd floor.
As I mentioned above, health has been really good over the past couple of weeks - my mouth ulcers have virtually all gone and although my eyes are still not great, things are bearable. I was up at Kings College Hospital today to see my consultant - who is very pleased with my progress. As it turns out I'm rather fortunate in that she is Australian and trained at the major hospitals in Sydney and is therefore able to introduce me to specialists she knows at St Vincents Hospital - so that with any luck the transfer of my treatment and care from the UK to Aus should be seamless. I collected a bulk order of meds today - enough to last me 3 months, by which time I should have transitioned to the PBS (Aus version of free prescriptions). I sat down and did some maths after I got home with my four shooping bags of medication and worked out that the retail cost would be somewhere in the region of £6k! So big up to the NHS - I love you.
As I mentioned above, health has been really good over the past couple of weeks - my mouth ulcers have virtually all gone and although my eyes are still not great, things are bearable. I was up at Kings College Hospital today to see my consultant - who is very pleased with my progress. As it turns out I'm rather fortunate in that she is Australian and trained at the major hospitals in Sydney and is therefore able to introduce me to specialists she knows at St Vincents Hospital - so that with any luck the transfer of my treatment and care from the UK to Aus should be seamless. I collected a bulk order of meds today - enough to last me 3 months, by which time I should have transitioned to the PBS (Aus version of free prescriptions). I sat down and did some maths after I got home with my four shooping bags of medication and worked out that the retail cost would be somewhere in the region of £6k! So big up to the NHS - I love you.
