We've moved several steps on to getting afloat - we've sold the car - (which was way more emotional than we imagined) advertised the house and at long last b...
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The boat sale has gone through. We have
bought an Amel 53-foot yachts.
I think we celebrated I can't remember.
I think we
opened a bottle champagne didn't we?
It's really exciting we're finally going
but it's really stressful because I'm
trying to so many things before we go. My
little one's at home today because he's
not going anywhere.
I can't arrange for him to go somewhere
every day but he quite likes being at
home, he plays really well. The school
holidays don't feel like school holidays
at all because I've got a massive list
of things to move out of his house. We have
to do a lot of maintenance before we go
so the children - I've organised for
them to do lots of things. So I just
don't feel like I'm really spending much
time with the kids at all. My brother
came to visit. My mum came because she
would like to be here when there's chaos.
I've had my friend from Hong Kong here
with her three girls. She only comes once
a year so I have to squeeze that in. Any
other friends that are local pretty much
had to deal with me painting while I'm
trying to chat to them.
The kids have gone a little bit feral
I haven't really been going out with
them every day, they just kind of have to
work it out really. I've tried to arrange
activities for them when I can.
So Woody is really busy in the workshop
knocking everything together because
we're having a huge sale on Sunday to
sell any of the surplus stock and bits
of furniture from his business Rat and
Pallet.
Our Mazda Bongo Friendy has been sold to another family that are going to make the most of it.
Hopefully they'll go on a lot of camping trips. It does
have a lot of sentimental value.
We've been on lots of adventures with it.
Since the kids were really young we've
been a lot of camping trips -
lots of photos from all over England of us in
that van sometimes in the rain, sometimes
in the sun..
I don't think the kids can quite believe
that we've actually sold the car and it
was getting driven off. So it was kind of
sad to see it go.
The car was 16 years old - we had it
imported from Japan and we made a lot of
good use of it. So we've got the house
listed - we've got lots of people
interested. There is a family coming
today which would be our ideal thing.
I've been cutting grass, cutting hedges,
cleaning paths, doing the decking, trying
to tidy up around the kids. This house
will be properly packed up, properly
maintained and in a couple weeks time
I'm gonna start the actual packing.
The lifeboats being pretty quiet
there was a Shout I didn't go out on.
It was a fishing boat that sunk. On the
lifeguarding job, yeah it was quite
busy day we rescued a dog in the morning
- or helped rescue it and found its owner
and then in the afternoon there was a
boat that was in difficulty and they
needed a bit of moral support. Right,
so now I'm going to pick up the kids -
they're doing their athletics and I promised
I'd go and watch them do their races at
the end so I've kind of got to finish my
job's early to go and do that but I do
feel that I need to go and see them.
Where's the other coffee's gone - have you just chucked it away?! Sorry.
I'm not doing a beauty blog!
Am I standing all right?
What's wrong with having a few sips every now and then?