So what's new??!!

So where to begin! It’s been an eventful couple of weeks to say the least!

We moved house 12-13^th August and everything went according to plan. If you fail to plan … and all that! We spent the weekend before doing some final clear outs and on the Sunday Ana & Mark kindly looked after Vera so that Mark and I could attack the attic. On the Monday, we took Vera to the nursery for her final day there and at 8:30 the removal men turned up. After inhaling a cup of tea each, they set to work and packed up the whole house in less than two hours. By 12:30 they had emptied the house and packed up the lorry. Ok, I know we had a  small house, but they were fast! For anyone moving, I would highly recommend the packing service, takes so much stress and time out of it. After lunch, Mark and I cleaned the house, left a card and a bottle of bubbly and went to pick up Vera. It was really sad leaving nursery. She’s had such an amazing time there, enjoyed all her walks and activities and developed into a confident little girl.

We drove up to Sheffield that afternoon and stayed one night in the Beauchief Hotel, just across the road from the house. We had dinner at Pesto restaurant followed by an early night! The removal van arrived the following day at 9:30am and by 11:30 they had unloaded the van and assembled the furniture. After a quick refreshing drink, they were off down to Cambridge again. We spent the afternoon unpacking and managed to complete about half the house before we had dinner and drove down to east Midlands Airport. We stayed the night in an airport hotel as we had such an early flight the morning after.

On Wednesday 14^th August, we flew out to Malaga and were picked up by Catrine at a busy Malaga airport. She drove us around 40 mins to Puerto Banus where we met Magnus, Åke and Folke! We had an amazing ten days and I will post some photos later. Highlights include hanging out by the pool, visits to Casares and Marbella and leisurely lunches and dinners! And a few glasses of Cava and Rioja of course!

We got back on Friday 23^rd Aug and it was a bit weird to drive north to Sheffield as opposed to south to Cambridge, but not as weird as I had expected. I guess we had had so much time to get used to the change! Mark had shown Vera photos throughout the holiday, so there were no issues at all returning to her new home! She recognized all her furniture in her room and has asked to go to bed in her room, pretty much every evening since we got back. Amazing how easily they adapt!

It was a long weekend, so we unpacked all our stuff but made sure we had time to explore the neighbouring Ecclesal woods and Abbeydale Park. The latter has a fantastic play ground, which Vera has been enjoying lots! On Tuesday 27^th I started back at work, remotely, which has been fine so far!

On the Thursday night we flew out to Ireland to attend a wedding in Wicklow, which I will write more about shortly! For now, I just wanted to show a sign of life!