After the family gathering last week, all the various outstanding odds and ends were quickly remedied and soon we had a working solar water heater (the plumbers had in fact installed the solar panel without the control unit which caused it to blow the pump), some shower walls, tv and internet and a working septic tank.
We then had a week to move in properly and clear and clean our rental house. This all went according to plan, and we shifted all but the largest items to the new house ourselves. This just left a few big and heavy items for the 'professionals' to move for us and the nerves were stretched a bit we saw the team of movers consisted of a strapping young man and a very weedy very old mate. He proceeded to drop 3 of the 8 items but not too much was broken and fortunately the piano arrived intact.
The cats had been very upset by their move to the rental house so we tried to make this easier for them. We shut them in the garage the first night and struggled to find them in the morning ...
and then lost them again the next day as they did not like the noisy builders.
Neil completed the architraves and moved on to shelves in cupboards ('happy thought indeed', to quote our favourite family saying from Pride and Prejudice) ...
... and then to shelves in the pantry.
He finished these on Friday 1st October, so thank you so much, Neil, for a great job done.
And we were left to fill the nail holes in the architraves before applying a last coat of polyurethane (best estimate = 600m of architrave and about 3-4000 nail holes to fill), the pantry shelves to polyurethane, and a house full of boxes to unpack and tidy away.
We had a spell of atrocious weather to add to the fun and at one stage our garden (and much of the surrounding countryside) turned into a series of ponds ...
... and the cat was rather sad and sorry.
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