the adlards

I’m sitting with Sophie watching the sun rise over Bloxham. It’s been a busy few days.

On Wednesday the removal company managed to get a container parked outside the house and load it with all our stuff. On Tuesday they’d thought they might need to ferry the stuff to the truck parked somewhere else. I missed it all because I was at work; Michelle, as you would expect, did an excellent job of directing operations despite having had a late (great) night out with her friends on Tuesday.

When it was all done we showed the girls around the house and played with echoes. Josie’s comment when she’d looked inside the container earlier in the day was, “But Mummy, a boat will sink if you put that on it.” The pictures of cargo ships on the ‘net obviously hadn’t conveyed an appropriate sense of scale. We went to Wagamamas and then drove to Phoe and Nin’s for the night. The girls were fast asleep by the time we got there. It was the first time Josie hasn’t woken being carried up to bed.

On Thursday what we thought would be a three-hour clean-up of the house took until 6pm. We also dropped off the car with the new owners and picked up a hire car (which is nice). We ate at the ShinyShowShop (Josie’s rendition of Chinese), where they treated us because it was our last time, and headed back to Phoe and Nin’s.

Yesterday we finally got the girls’ travel documents from the Royal Mail depot. It is a comfort to know that we’ll get them into the country legitimately. I’d begun steeling myself for the interview rooms at Jo’burg International Airport. In the afternoon we drove to the Schonkens and got the call from our Solicitor on the way to let us know our house sale had completed.

So here we are, languishing with our friends – well, sort of languishing, Josie eventually went to sleep last night at about 10.30 but is, fortunately, still asleep now. It feels good to be able to start unwinding. I believe we’re going shopping today, so I should probably make the most of the peace while it lasts!

We’ve taken a few pics over the last few days when we’ve remembered and will post them soon.

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