Our penultimate weekend in this house - I still can't believe it really. We've made a start on the packing this weekend - what a lot of books, and I mean A LOT. And they are SO heavy. I started to feel a bit overwhelmed yesterday by all our stuff but as Derrie said, it's not that different to packing for a boating holiday. And I have that down to a fine art - everything but the kitchen sink. I don't know what the cats make of it all but luckily they seem pretty relaxed so far, which seems amazing really. Overall I think we are pretty organised. We've contacted most of the people we need to inform about the move, including BT and Demon. That's very important, we can't be computerless for too long! And living in Tonbridge looks like it will be quite a bit cheaper (in terms of insurances and utilities) which is good.
I'm in the middle of a very good book at the moment, Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern, which is about a young autistic boy called Adam. It's a thriller really and very hard to put down. And during the week we watched Housewife, 49 (on DVD) in which Victoria Wood plays Nella, a depressed woman living with a domineering and somewhat cold husband at the start of World War II. She starts contributing to the Mass Observation Study as a way of trying to cope with her depression and it made me think about how things don't really change but are just reinvented, I mean, she was really doing the equivalent of a Blog. Derrie always makes the same point about online shopping, remembering his local grocery shop when he was a boy which always delivered - but for free, not a £5 surcharge!
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