today I came home in a van

A very large van. A long based Mercedes sprinter, and I worried all the way home about how I was going to get it into the drive (which at least stopped me worrying about driving it in heavy traffic on the M606, M62 and M1!).

Small was thrilled – suspect he’s going to be less amused when he discovers he doesn’t get to ride in it. Instead tomorrow we will commence a complicated operation that will see me take in 90 minutes epipen training , followed by taking children off the path, collecting a Jonathan, coming back here and fairly frantically removing furniture, relocating it up the M1 (before it closes tomorrow night :wall:) and then doing some variation on that theme the day after so that we can sleep in a different house for going to work on Monday.

All of this would be aided hugely by children being asleep now, so obviously they are awake and shouting. And I really ought to be packing things instead of blogging, twittering and scrabulousing.

Oh well.


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7 responses to “today I came home in a van”

  1. oh good luck, I hope tomorrow goes really smoothly. It’s really reminding me of when we moved with it happening so fast. Shout if you need help.

  2. Good luck with the move.

  3. Reminds me of why I love removals companies 🙂

  4. Oh, and hope it goes without too many hitches 🙂

  5. t-bird anni avatar
    t-bird anni

    hope it’s all going well and Small forgives you for not letting him ride with you!

  6. Hope it all went smoothly.

  7. Hi Jax – sorry to hassle you at a stressful time like this but I’ve lost the blogring code off my blog … can you let me have it please? Thanks, and good luck with the settling in!

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