I knew that travelling would be disruptive to my life but I just never knew how much. Maybe it's just because I'm not 21 anymore but I am SO pleased to be in my own home and not living in a tiny hotel room and out of suitcases.
We searched high and low for a place to live and finally when we were beginning to despair, the right one came along! Patience...... This place popped up on the internet and we got to view it straight away, were deemed to be ok by the owners (?) and last weekend we moved in (See below). Well, we moved our 3 suitcases and lots of shopping bags. Furnished places are hard to find so we ended up getting a place just with the white goods and we have to get the rest. We have a table and 4 chairs and a bed, oh yes, AND we have 2 bedside tables purchased after a harrowing trip to Ikea in Milton Keynes.
Milton Keynes is an hour and 5 mins away from where we now live. I thought we could take a simple drive there, whizz into Ikea, get our goods and then out again. But no! We arrived at Milton Keynes to find that EVERYONE wanted to shop this weekend as it is a holiday weekend. There were literally thousands of people there. Now, I thought Ikea in Brisbane was big but I haven't seen anything like the Milton Keynes store.... We were starving because the UK sadly lacks places to stop for a bite to eat (cafes are rare when you are on the road ), so we decided to eat at Ikea. Well, the wait for that was 30 mins. The food filled us up thankfully and left us ready, I thought, to embark on the Ikea never ending journey. We got to the chair section at which point instead of liking my selection, the other person in the relationship decided he liked something else. Something VERY SIMILAR to what we had had in Australia. Now, my idea is that we are somewhere different so we should take the opportunity to do something different. I had been sweating over catalogues and magazines and had a fairly clear idea of the design direction we should be taking. Alas this was not to be. So we left Ikea without seating but with bedside tables, which are built and functioning very well. Lesson = never take husband to Ikea again!!
On arriving back at our new house we were hungry for our dinner and looking forward to cooking our first meal. I turned on the new induction cooktop but alas, we could not make it work..... turns out our new ceramic cookwear does not work on induction cooktops - another lesson learnt. No problem we thought, we'll head down to the local pub (our village has 2 pubs, a cafe, and a general store). We walked down (2 minutes) and then discovered that neither pub does meals on a Saturday night! We looked at each other laughed, ordered a drink, walked back up the hill to home and made a dinner of cheese and tomato on toast. Day One complete so we fell into our new bed and the next morning we both agreed that it is one of the best beds we have slept in.
These photos are of the grounds and the beautiful big home where we live.
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