Good news! Following last weeks’ efforts and much (admittedly unladylike) badgering and pushiness this week, I can confirm that contracts have been exchanged and I am expecting to complete on my new flat on the 23rd. I aim to move shortly afterwards and even this very afternoon have been busily packing up boxes of books (and\u00a0shortly afterwards\u00a0unpacking them again, as I have found I am nowhere near strong enough to lift a box of books – surprise surprise). My current residence is starting to look decidedly shabby as last weeks skip-filling has taken it’s toll and I have found myself this week rather shamefacedly explaining to new visitors that it really does not always look like this!<\/p>\n
So I have had a pleasant week all round and met some lovely friends old and new – the weather here is truly glorious and seems to have placed\u00a0all in buoyant mood, although as the weather and thus my lovely boudoir<\/em> have been reaching some very high temperatures this week, I imagine that my impending\u00a0move will be particularly welcome – the wet room especially! Casualty of the week has been my long-suffering washing machine, which has undoubtedly served me well but eventually spun it’s last on Sunday afternoon. A\u00a0few last lurching, tortuous shakes of the drum left me with a large metal box full of water and towels to deal with and so upon it’s removal and the delivery of my spanking-new Zanussi yesterday morning I have been industriously catching up on linens and such – thank God I\u00a0have the space to\u00a0hang things out (although some of my more\u00a0personal items\u00a0naturally remain indoors to –\u00a0as you know I am extremely fussy about who is on familiar terms with my\u00a0delicates).<\/p>\n Needless to say, I am curtailing my usual travels over the next few weeks to orchestrate my move but am still looking forward to a few upcoming assignations which will\u00a0whisk me briefly from Scarborough and keep me busy long enough to take my mind off all things domestic – the value of these\u00a0will doubtless become more and more apparent over the coming few days and I am very much looking forward to relaxing and washing my hands of it all, albeit temporarily! Even only a couple of hours in today I find that I have had frankly enough of cardboard boxes and the aroma of marker pen – I have instead decided that a break is called for –\u00a0M&S chocolate pudding and a nap on the settee until Hollyoaks (guaranteed to leave me refreshed and ready for anything, which with the weekend fast approaching,\u00a0may turn out to be just as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good news! Following last weeks’ efforts and much (admittedly unladylike) badgering and pushiness this week, I can confirm that contracts have been exchanged and I am expecting to complete on my new flat on the 23rd. I aim to move shortly afterwards and even this very afternoon have been busily packing up boxes of books (and\u00a0shortly afterwards\u00a0unpacking them again, as I have found I am nowhere near strong enough to lift a box of books – surprise surprise). My current residence is starting to look decidedly shabby as last weeks skip-filling has taken it’s toll and I have found myself this week rather shamefacedly explaining to new visitors that it really does not always look like this! So I have had a pleasant week all round and met some lovely friends old and new – the weather here is truly glorious and seems to have placed\u00a0all in buoyant mood, although as the weather and thus my lovely boudoir have been reaching some very high temperatures this week, I imagine that my impending\u00a0move will be particularly welcome – the wet room especially! Casualty of the week has been my long-suffering washing machine, which has undoubtedly served me well but eventually spun it’s last on Sunday afternoon. A\u00a0few last lurching, tortuous shakes of the drum left me with a large metal box full of water and towels to deal with and so upon it’s removal and the delivery of my spanking-new Zanussi yesterday morning I have been industriously catching up on linens and such – thank God I\u00a0have the space to\u00a0hang things out (although some of my more\u00a0personal items\u00a0naturally remain indoors to –\u00a0as you know I am extremely fussy about who is on familiar terms with my\u00a0delicates). Needless to say, I am curtailing my usual travels over the next few weeks to orchestrate my move but am still looking forward to a few upcoming assignations which will\u00a0whisk me briefly from Scarborough and keep me busy long enough to take my mind off all things domestic – the value of these\u00a0will doubtless become more and more apparent over the coming few days and I am very much looking forward to relaxing and washing my hands of it all, albeit temporarily! Even only a couple of hours in today I find that I have had frankly enough of cardboard boxes and the aroma of marker pen – I have instead decided that a break is called for –\u00a0M&S chocolate pudding and a nap on the settee until Hollyoaks (guaranteed to leave me refreshed and ready for anything, which with the weekend fast approaching,\u00a0may turn out to be just as well).<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}