Confirmation...

....came in the form of a telephone call from our solicitor. Our lady of Norfolk is moving on Friday! She has signed the last of her papers, paid some fees she needed to...and friends and neighbours are helping her pack. So it seems we will have a home on Friday...

I'll be off to Fakenham to collect the key from her solicitor, whilst hubby waits for the removal lorry to appear...

We just need to take our key to our agents today, and then....our sons are coming to say goodbye to the house tomorrow evening. It's not where they were born, but they were twelve and ten when we moved here, it's where they met all the friends they have now, and if we hadn't moved here...I wouldn't have the two beautiful women in their lives...nor my two amazing grandsons.

My team play Huddersfield on Saturday, and after a bit of a stagnant time recently, three points gained would be good. It would take us top...as Leeds don't play until Monday, but will have two games in hand. We need to keep those nipping at our heels just there, behind us...so no giving free or easy points away...our support needs to be strong, the team need to know the supporters are with them, not picking holes in what's going on on the pitch...or decisions made. The game agains the Gills...Gillingham, will be interesting as there's no love lost...and we would like their front man to call our own, and they'd like one of ours. Unfortunately for different valuations...and they don't really want to lose theirs...though, if we're still strong at the January transfer window, that might swing the balance for the player...we'll see, we still have October, November and December to negotiate first...

Well, the computer gets dismantled tomorrow morning and with no access for awhile, I'll say adieu...wish everyone happiness, a lovely weekend...and may you all give me lots of reading to catch up with.

Take care
Love Su xx

PS...and the plans for Sunday...a walk on the beach.

She came...

...she measured, and we had tea...

Our buyer came on Friday with her tape, having ordered some furniture to be delivered next week (it fits). We went over where the stopcock is, and how to light the Aga (sob)...how the boiler timer works, and...to show her where the heating thermostat is (their surveyor told them we didn't have one). She's so excited, having been in rented accommodation for two and a half years, when they originally thought it'd be for six months...

But, that visit made it all very real. I think because it's been so long in coming and we'd had so many issues and setbacks, it had become just something that was in the future. Well, that future is this Friday...

Oh boy!!!

You know...

...when you titivate...just do what's necessary and not the whole. With the removal men coming on Thursday to pack most of the house into their lorry, we have a big clean planned for that evening, so my buyer is visiting today!

I could've said no...but that seemed a little churlish, so...anyone know where I left the vacuum!?

A plethera...

...of phone calls yesterday, had us accused of having had the lady in Norfolk's phone cut off!

Several calls later...dear BT agreed we couldn't have done, as we don't own the number...and heaven forfend they got things wrong.

It seems they have our ownership of the line starting the 16th(as advised by us)...and we will have a completely new number(as she's taking the old with her), so no hint of ownership of the old. They are saying it had to come from Norfolk...they wouldn't have done anything on the say so of someone not listed as owning the number, and would've written warning of the impending cancellation. Who knows what to believe!

In amongst these conversations we have been given some slightly (still to be confirmed) good news though. It seems our lady of Norfolk is now looking forward to moving on the right date...having been advised how much it would cost her not to.

Hopefully by next weeks Friday evening we'll know, and be happily emptying boxes...though my husband tells me we are eating out!

Against...

...the views of most of my teams regular bloggers, we earned a hard fought, well deserved draw against Leeds. Of course, I'd have loved a win...

But it's a good result (a win would've been icing)...it keeps us in touch with them and ahead of Bristol Rovers, who lost to Norwich.

No wonder Parky left the field with a smile on his face....I had a mirror version...

We've also nearly finished the clearing out. A hard working morning, several trips to the local tip and a load of old rubbish has gone. Also a call to one of the charities and some furniture we don't want to take with us will be going on Wednesday...we can begin to see the end...we just need to know we have a home to go to!

Looking back...

...over different times(moving does that), I realised how long I've been researching my family history. I actually drew up the first map before I was married. I think it must have been something at the later stages of school, a project or something.
I gradually added children as my cousins produced descendants. Then I had my sons and the plan went away until a younger cousin was told I'd started, and asked it she could continue. I gave her a copy, and got on with growing sons...
Several years later I started to help my husband with his tree...as they knew very little about their history other than immediate family. Again, time ran out on our searching, and it was also put to one side...
We both had family stories, tales told...legends grew...and things changed just like Chinese Whispers, but what was the actual stories of these names, these peoples lives...who were they, and by definition who are we?
Nearly seven years ago one cousin decided to have a family party, just as we had when we were all children...and he set up in one corner a basic tree...the one I'd given to someone all those years before...with added anecdotes and photos. It was strange seeing us altogether again...but, time passed by, until my father died suddenly four years ago and I thought about my family, and all those ancestors who I'd never known. I mean, my wider maternal family were out there too...so, I started on a journey to discover who these people were, how did they live...what made them move from place to place....these people who have made me...and my sons and grandsons... I have unconfirmed details going back to the 1400's...now I have to visit parish churches, and kindly vicars...and county record offices...
For the lads in my life, I've also been researching my husbands family...with some surprises for them...and now! I've just started on my daughter in laws family...with the help of my grandsons...and for them...