31.10
8.35am FBG 5.7.
So grateful that son2 chose to arrive a few days early, instead of his due date, which was today. I could not have coped with a lifetime of Halloween birthdays. Having sent years of my life trying to ignore it.
In the busyness of the last few days I have forgotten to post.
Update on house sale.
After advice from a French friend, at the second viewing I resolutely ignored the roof repair, which they apparently did not notice, also a small damp patch In a window reveal. The important thing is to tell them about the things they cannot see for themselves. So mentioned the dripping tap, and demonstrated how to almost stop it. (now MrSlim will not need to fix or replace it) Told them which window won't open and that another is difficult to clean. Mentioned the occasional woodworm in the bedroom. Which they peered at. They had already been told about the underfloor heating, and accepted that only half of it works in the kitchen.
I told them we are not taking the huge heavy armoire in the salon, it's too heavy to move, or the four poster bed in the master bedroom. We had to cut the frame in half to get it up the stairs and then weld it back together. Also showed them which plants we intend to remove from the garden, apparently very important to agree on that.
Then electronic signing of the preliminary agreement. Which due to my technical and computer incompetence took a lot longer than it should have done.
Now we wait.
They have ten days to withdraw.
I am packing. Started with sumner clothes, seemed a logical first step. Moved on to the armoire in our bedroom. Which has already been tidied, except for the bottom shelf, a mess of shoes, their boxes, bags and other things thrown in to be out of sight.
Sorted shoes, placed sandals into their boxes, decided not to keep a pair of fancy patterned boots, pretty, but not comfortable, so rarely worn.
During the sorting process there was stuff everywhere, it didn't help that Kiki was rearranging some of it and later brought inside a huge spider to play with!
Mess resolves into one packed suitcase with all our summer clothes, pile of rubbish, big bag for charity shop and remaining tidily stacked shoes and bags back in the armoire. However those pretty boots in their box are nowhere to be found. I must have spent an hour looking for them. Still missing this morning.
Do other people have things perform this vanishing act. Happens to me fairly frequently. Now having to go through everything again.
@dogslife if a photo is too large, screenshot it and try again with the screenshot. Thanks to whoever it was who gave me this tip, has saved a lot of time.