Settling in

I've been working hard this week to sort out more of our stuff, for various reasons. One reason is that I'm a bit like a cat: I need to turn round several times and be comfortable in my environment before I can sit down, so it is important to me that my environment is organised in such a way that I can find things and that it isn't full of boxes... I also wanted to do it for the rest of the family. With the quickest and most straightforward land purchase/house build in the world we will still be extremely lucky to have moved in there before the end of 2007, and so it's worth the effort of getting our rented house reasonably 'straight' because we'll be living in it for several months yet. Plus Michael and I both need to be able to work and earn a living!

The result has been a hot and sweaty week of sorting through the remaining un-opened boxes and doing a slow jigsaw puzzle of moving things around to create enough space in which to do things like set up desks, unpack books and equipment and get things sorted out so that we have a functioning office/guest bedroom. In the process I've been trying to create enough floor space to move the rest of the boxes down from upstairs so that the kitchen, dining area, living room, hallway, corridor and bedrooms are free of boxes and clutter. And at last I've succeeded!

Downstairs in the office/guest bedroom we've gone from this...














... to this:








































OK, so if you want to come and stay I'll have to clear the guitar off the bed, but that's a million times better than the state it has been in! And somehow it's been an important thing to do before the New Year; I'll feel a lot better this New Year's Eve in the knowledge that I don't have any more boxes to shift for a couple of weeks (until the remaining 70-off boxes arrive from the UK, anyway!).