Tag Archives: moving house

2015 – The best of times and the worst of times… (a mimimalist’s version)

Posted on December 31, 2015 by

This time tomorrow, 2015 will be a thing of the past and we’ll all be watching the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. It’s been a year of ups and downs… Best moment: Holding The Attic Room for the first time. … Continue reading →

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Toilet roll holders, and other tricky moving-house decisions…

Posted on October 25, 2015 by

If I had ten franks for every moving-house decision I’ve made in the past two and a bit years I could retire tomorrow, and go and live on a lovely tropical island and write books and watch the sun go … Continue reading →

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New home, old books…

Posted on April 19, 2015 by

We’ve arrived, we’re here in the new flat, most of the boxes are unpacked and even the bookshelves are beginning to take shape. I’m going in for a different kind of book organisation in this flat. What you see here … Continue reading →

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Bye bye temporary flat…

Posted on April 12, 2015 by

Well, we made it. With a little help. At exactly 07.30 on Friday morning our super-efficient removal team arrived and proceeded to shift all our furniture and a few dozen boxes out of the old flat and…   …into the … Continue reading →

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Four more sleeps…

Posted on April 5, 2015 by

…in this temporary flat that’s been home for the past seventeen months or so. And now that we’re breaking it up and packing all our worldly goods back into cardboard boxes, I’m feeling quite nostalgic. There’s nothing quite as final … Continue reading →

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A certain Swedish warehouse and a room with a view…

Posted on March 22, 2015 by

It’s almost time to say goodbye to our temporary flat. It’s been a good time, but I won’t be sorry to leave. Nineteen months of no pictures on the walls is enough. If I’d known at the beginning we’d be … Continue reading →

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The A-Z of Moving House…

Posted on February 22, 2015 by

Three weeks and counting…. Three weeks on Tuesday, we get the keys to the new flat. That’s the day we check it out with the building company to make sure that the appliances actually work and all the doors fit … Continue reading →

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Seven weeks and counting… Stuff…

Posted on January 25, 2015 by

Seven weeks on Tuesday we get the keys to the new flat. My mind is beginning to reel – I genuinely thought that having done all this just a year and a half ago, the upcoming move would be a … Continue reading →

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The beginning of the end…

Posted on September 7, 2014 by

Our days are numbered here in our new temporary flat. Okay, it’s still quite a big number as the new flat won’t be ready to inhabit until March – but that’s official now. Another removal is looming in the distance. … Continue reading →

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Temping

Posted on May 10, 2014 by

Well I remember that day in early 2012. I was sitting with a cup of Swiss bank coffee in front of me, informing my allocated financial consultant that I was proposing to sell our family home and buy one of … Continue reading →

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