...and then there were two
Friday, April 18th, 2008 02:30 pmAt about 13.50 this afternoon
colonel_maxim loaded the remainder of his luggage into the limousine that had arrived and as I type he is on his way to Heathrow, flying out at 17.00 for parts East.
I got up at the usual time, had a little breakfast with
ellefurtle and then wandered back to bed for a couple of hours after she left for work. Up again about ten to pootle on the PC and then down for a natter and a cup of coffee. The Colonel and I then decamped to the Whetstone Cafe - the greasy spoon up the road and not the best local cafe, but the one we frequented when first we arrived in the area for one last life-threatening fry up and then very suddenly that was that. The Atheneaum Club as it was is no more.
I have just done a little tidying and the washing up; walked around the flat and turned off various radiators that kept The Colonel at his customary hot house temperatures and then closed all the doors to the rooms we shall no longer need. With the exception of the bath and shower rooms, that is the entire middle floor, though they will still see some use when
smokingboot visits and also for as brief spell in six weeks when the Colonel himself returns for the first of his many paid holidays.
But today is the end of an era. We shall give it a week or so I guess and then start the slow and leisurely process of sifting through our possessions to see what will make the move with us at the end of the lease and what can be donated to charity, free cycled, eBayed or plain dumped.
I confess to feeling just a little melancholy at the prospect of it all, but that won't last. Three months from now we shall be in a new flat - hopefully better maintained and cheaper. Whether here in Whetstone or somewhere else entirely is yet to be determined.
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I got up at the usual time, had a little breakfast with
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I have just done a little tidying and the washing up; walked around the flat and turned off various radiators that kept The Colonel at his customary hot house temperatures and then closed all the doors to the rooms we shall no longer need. With the exception of the bath and shower rooms, that is the entire middle floor, though they will still see some use when
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But today is the end of an era. We shall give it a week or so I guess and then start the slow and leisurely process of sifting through our possessions to see what will make the move with us at the end of the lease and what can be donated to charity, free cycled, eBayed or plain dumped.
I confess to feeling just a little melancholy at the prospect of it all, but that won't last. Three months from now we shall be in a new flat - hopefully better maintained and cheaper. Whether here in Whetstone or somewhere else entirely is yet to be determined.