Matt’s Journal

If there was an award for the quickest settlement in a new home, Katie and I would have won it. Having packed two cars and a horse trailer both on last Friday and the Saturday morning, we were completely unpacked and ready to put things away by 2:30pm that Saturday afternoon. My father in law and I of course were busy building all manner of tables, Katie and her mother putting away bits in the kitchen and my mother helping bring in possessions from her house I had left there. Eventually, we dismissed the families and took stock of our own house, with a fair amount of clothing needing to be sorted upstairs.

Sunday morning was more of the same, we called up the utility companies and activated our BT phone line. Clothes were packed into wardrobes and anything not needed was dumped unceremoniously in the loft space! Short of a few food items, by Sunday evening, the whole house was completely as we wanted it, unpacked and all sorted out…the only thing we lacked was a TV signal.

Since then, the internet has been ordered and is due to be activated next Wednesday and we have Sky+ so we can watch TV. We also have two other additions to the house…..these guys!

Their names are Pusskins and Niblet, I got to name the latter. Pusskins has a smudge of white on his paws whereas Niblet is completely black. We looked at some of the local ad’s in the paper, visited a woman who took care of her pets better than herself and came back with these little guys!

So, as you can see all is going swimmingly! Expect a few more updates as of the 1st when we get internet access at home.