The Cheerful Insanity of Me

And there was me thinking I'd be organised, pack most stuff over the weekend and be able to go out most evenings this week *laughs at own foolish thoughts*

Parts of the house are now feeling distinctly empty, but not as bad as when I moved out of the flat in Croydon six months ago (thethirdvoice's stuff is still here unpacked).

Have been very tired all week and packing doesn't seem to be helping. Must investigate the possibility of going to sleep for several months after all this is over...

*looks at boxes contemplatively*

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You'll have to imagine there's a Blue Peter tortoise hibernating video clip here.

YouTube doesn't seem to have one *is shocked* or at least I can't find one
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*curls up in box and goes to sleep*

Last night on the way home, I arrived at Paddington to discover everything was delayed due to a car hitting a bridge at Hayes.

After a wait they finally added my stop to one of the Reading trains that was about to leave (doesn't normally stop here, but actually left about the same time as the one that normally would). They only announce the extra stops just before it left, so I ended up in the last carriage.

When we arrived at the station at home, I opened the train door to find a distinct lack of platform, just a drop down to track level. The platform itself started a few meters further up the train. Wasn't enough time to get further up the train to the platform so ended up going to Slough and getting First Great Western to pay for a Taxi back (after several questions along the lines of "Are you sure the doors opened?").

So we've just spoken to the landlord about terminating the tenancy early. Obviously, he wasn't thrilled, but I think he'll probably be reasonable about it and hopefully we can come to some arrangement to free us from the contract without causing them too much inconvenience.

He said he'd need to talk to his wife and the letting agent about it and would get back to us later in the week, so hopefully we might be able to sort this out soon and then I can look at moving back to London.

Missing part for new desk finally arrived yesterday (after 3 months of chasing it up), so now computer is setup again.

Also got a trolley-thing to put the Samovar on, so finally I have the important things in life back again...

Firstly, the big news: thethirdvoice has been offered a job, which she is probably going to accept. She's got another interview on Tuesday, which she is going to go to in case it is the greatest job in the world, but the chances are she'll be accepting this offer mid-week.

On Friday, we're off to Sidmouth for a week with Molly and then will be heading up to Mum's for the following weekend to see her before she head's back up to Penrith (she's been renting a house in north Devon for the past 6 months).

When we get back, I'll be moving offices at work. An obvious corollary of not being a librarian is not needing to work in the library any more. We had a handover meeting for the library on Friday and it's going to switch to being open and unmanned while I'm on holiday.

Also moving house hopefully at the end of August. thethirdvoice's new job is in Langley, Slough, so we are going to try to move there a soon as we can (quite lucky I didn't end up working in Cambridge really). Went to look at houses there yesterday and found a couple of potentials and we're going to try to claim one of them tomorrow morning.

I need to give a month's notice from a rent date for my current flat, which is at the beginning of the month, so if we get the Langley house sorted this week we should be able to move towards the end of the month.