Another\u00a0pleasant week at home after the breathless\u00a0crosscountry dashing of last weekend! I have received some especially charming new friends this last few days, many even bearing gifts (and at least two who\u00a0I believe would have been happy to take my much-prized Tom Waits ticket off my hands). It turns out that these sold out in half an hour, many\u00a0being left\u00a0frustrated and disappointed, which in my opinion is very bad manners. As you know, I\u00a0always enjoy entertaining like-minded people, and fortunately am often\u00a0delighted to\u00a0discover that my callers are envisaging a very similar scenario to myself upon our meeting!<\/p>\n
I have also had the opportunity to visit and view my lovely new apartment again – the urge to purchase en masse<\/em> is kicking in with a vengeance and I have seen plenty of exquisite and impractically beautiful\u00a0items to delight both myself and my visitors, although from a practical point of view, apart from hovering buzzard-like over a beautiful chandelier on Ebay and halfheartedly gathering some wallpaper samples and paint-colour booklets I seem to lack the\u00a0motivation to do anything really useful, especially being\u00a0STILL without a moving date. Perhaps adopting the uniform of T-shirt, trainers & tracksuit bottoms\u00a0(de rigeur<\/em> in the local superstores and DIY places; face like a smacked a**e optional, although from what I have seen, a popular\u00a0accessory) would help me get into the spirit of things. The current kitchen especially is horrendous and is my first priority after my\u00a0visiting areas – I can’t possibly eat out\u00a0every<\/em> night of the week! I have so far seen a sink I quite like and got no further;\u00a0fortunately a gentleman friend who\u00a0is\u00a0extremely knowledgable\u00a0about such things has been particularly gallant in his offers of help and assistance, and in fact has made many interesting suggestions which I am looking forward to exploring further (time and occasion permitting).<\/p>\n My worries about the moving of large items of furniture have also been somewhat allayed by the discovery of a large trap-door leading to the basement suite where I will be conducting my meetings –\u00a0an exciting find indeed! Although fit (and very energetic) I am not particularly strong and the thought of trying to convey a kingsize bed and mattress down a spiral staircase was playing on my mind somewhat; now I find, as with so many situations, a firm grip and strong length of rope\u00a0is likely to\u00a0solve most problems. This afternoon I will be bagging up unwanted items for the charity shop – I\u00a0am being as ruthless as possible, although some of my livelier garments will probably not be appreciated by the\u00a0lovely ladies at MIND as much as others – these unfortunately will have to be binned unless anyone else would like them (do let me know!) As regards the move itself I have decided that instead of\u00a0niggling about slowness and lack of progression, I ought really to be appreciating the chance to stop and take a breather before all the real action starts, as is so often necessary (especially during the warmer months). When I do eventually have a date, I promise you will be the first to know; after all, someone\u00a0has to be my first houseguest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another\u00a0pleasant week at home after the breathless\u00a0crosscountry dashing of last weekend! I have received some especially charming new friends this last few days, many even bearing gifts (and at least two who\u00a0I believe would have been happy to take my much-prized Tom Waits ticket off my hands). It turns out that these sold out in half an hour, many\u00a0being left\u00a0frustrated and disappointed, which in my opinion is very bad manners. As you know, I\u00a0always enjoy entertaining like-minded people, and fortunately am often\u00a0delighted to\u00a0discover that my callers are envisaging a very similar scenario to myself upon our meeting! I have also had the opportunity to visit and view my lovely new apartment again – the urge to purchase en masse is kicking in with a vengeance and I have seen plenty of exquisite and impractically beautiful\u00a0items to delight both myself and my visitors, although from a practical point of view, apart from hovering buzzard-like over a beautiful chandelier on Ebay and halfheartedly gathering some wallpaper samples and paint-colour booklets I seem to lack the\u00a0motivation to do anything really useful, especially being\u00a0STILL without a moving date. Perhaps adopting the uniform of T-shirt, trainers & tracksuit bottoms\u00a0(de rigeur in the local superstores and DIY places; face like a smacked a**e optional, although from what I have seen, a popular\u00a0accessory) would help me get into the spirit of things. The current kitchen especially is horrendous and is my first priority after my\u00a0visiting areas – I can’t possibly eat out\u00a0every night of the week! I have so far seen a sink I quite like and got no further;\u00a0fortunately a gentleman friend who\u00a0is\u00a0extremely knowledgable\u00a0about such things has been particularly gallant in his offers of help and assistance, and in fact has made many interesting suggestions which I am looking forward to exploring further (time and occasion permitting). My worries about the moving of large items of furniture have also been somewhat allayed by the discovery of a large trap-door leading to the basement suite where I will be conducting my meetings –\u00a0an exciting find indeed! Although fit (and very energetic) I am not particularly strong and the thought of trying to convey a kingsize bed and mattress down a spiral staircase was playing on my mind somewhat; now I find, as with so many situations, a firm grip and strong length of rope\u00a0is likely to\u00a0solve most problems. This afternoon I will be bagging up unwanted items for the charity shop – I\u00a0am being as ruthless as possible, although some of my livelier garments will probably not be appreciated by the\u00a0lovely ladies at MIND as much as others – these unfortunately will have to be binned unless anyone else would like them (do let me know!) As regards the move itself I have decided that instead of\u00a0niggling about slowness and lack of progression, I ought really to be appreciating the chance to stop and take a breather before all the real action starts, as is so often necessary (especially during the warmer months). When I do eventually have a date, I promise you will be the first to know; after all, someone\u00a0has to be my first houseguest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-diary","tag-owo","tag-petite"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}