It seemed to take a long time to get to moving day, but on the day things happened super fast! We had so many wonderful people helping us, in so many ways, and we certainly wouldn't be able to sit outside, lazing in the sun, blogging about life just 2 days later if they hadn't all done such a sterling job!
Here is the roll of honour. Our very grateful thanks go to:
Junita, Silke, (on her penultimate day in Lincoln, before returning home to Germany!) Lyndy, Anna, (even though we were moving to her childhood home - thanks for trusting us with it), Will, Steve, Nathan, Rhys, Justin, Phil, Cammy (almost carried the piano single-handedly at one point!), Ian, Tassy, Khalid, Kongchay (found homes for everything in the kitchen).
These guys all turned up early, champing at the bit and emptied our house, before we even got the keys to the new one!
Here's all our worldly goods on the drive with Will and Steve.
And then it was round the corner top the new place. For about an hour all I, large-with-child-Lizzy, got to do was stand by the front door, saying "1st room on the left please", "second room on the left", "garage please"....
The list continues:
Dr. Mark, M.J. Wilson (brawn as well as brains - and supplied his trailer!), Pam (delicious muffins and pie!), Sam (supplied miracle cleaning products, and made short work of cleaning 105 from top to bottom) Jeremy, (just a few months old - thanks for lending us your mum for a few hours), 3 or 4 rather inebriated students who grabbed some shelves and carried them round the corner before wending their way to the big Lincoln Uni end of term Garden Party on campus, Stuart & Lizzy (made our bed for us), Andrew, Margo, Neal & Nancy (sold us a wonderful home, complete with stunning veggie garden, which Mothy is very excited about) Ian, Mike, (transplanted very important plants for us!) Paul & Christine, (supplied exactly the right amount of packing boxes), the sturgeon family, (freezer collection), and of course Hugo the cat (general - er - helpfulness)
We are very pleased (and relieved) to be here!
Here's Mothy ceremonially planting his Mr Jones, the quince tree. Happy days!
3 comments:
Awesome! Happy to hear that its all worked out so well - and with typical Lincoln style. Good stuff.
Tom
P.s. Give my regards to Mr Jones - great to see him all grown up!
Glad you've made it in! And to think I've stayed in your new home already (in fact, before you did!). Enjoy!
Great that you've moved in to your house - and Lizzy you look positively beautiful - carrying Terry certainly suits you!! Hope you're doing ok Lizzy with Tim in India. We're thinking of you often and pray all will go with the arrival of Terry - once Tim's back!! Hope Sarah's looking after you well! Lots of love Ju xxxx
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