2 weeks in both directions.....

Well it's been 2 weeks since we moved house.  Week one was all about the bedroom, strip wall paper, undercoat, top costs, woodwork and lay new carpet. Followed by a new bed......bordering on bariatric ......and then rest.  We spent most of the first week sleeping on a blow up mattress in the living room and I can't tell you how good it felt to sleeping a brand bed bed, with new mattress, duvet and covers etc....the later few items required due to its gargantuan size as the previous ones would have looked like a fig leaf in comparison. 

Then week 2 and all 63 boxes now empty have been returned :) and almost feels like home.  The kids are currently laying in  a £2 paddling pool I bought in b and q, kaths snoozing and well I'm........supervising activity.  

Now in 2 weeks time we are off to Trondheim and back to Roros and ålen, having just booked a sneaky house hunting trip for the weekend and the lovely Ruth agreeing to child sit for us - love you - so maybe in the next 2 weeks we might well be on our way to our next new home! Scary thought. ...,,

Waiting.......

It's funny really, that after two and half years our journey is yet again reduced to sitting around waiting.  Now I could get all grumpy all about it but instead have found 2 positives;

1 it's time to sit and do nothing and when was the last time either of us got to do that. 

2.  I get to write a much needed blog post! 

So today we move house......only within the uk.....but it's still a massive step forward.  

We've sold our biggish house to release a load of capital so we can now go shopping in Norway.  The plan being we can then hopefully rent our new uk place out whilst we start things up over there and then it gives us a bit of a safety net against rising uk house prices and a base if things go pear shaped........ You know ......prepare for the worst, hope for the best!

We've come out of a 4 bed 2 living room place and are moving into a 2 bed terrace. And here is where the problems now start.  Having had the week from hell on the house selling front, we finally exchanged today and I'm now sat in braunton car park waiting to compete.  

With the week from hell almost over this actually seems strangely relaxing. Sat around in the sun, listening to the skate boarders and gulls I feel a great sense of calm. Now I can't work out if it's because  I've gone past caring and am cream crackered or if it's actually because we are on our way! Either way I know it's going to need lots more hard work but I also still have faith that it will happen and good things come to those who wait..... ........ Hopefully......... Eventually ........one day.