Whoo hoo, we exchanged contracts!

[dinny]

And we're leaving London for t'other side of the M25! In a week's time! Any tips on village life??

oooh where you moving to?

Congratulations.

Village life a bit like freahers week - don't get too friendly all at once.

And learn to live with (and enjoy for yourself) nosiness.

Has many good bits though.

And [not meaning to be rude emoticon] it's got to beat Mitcham.

Little village the other side of Reigate! V excited! And terrified!

ooh well now you live near me! kind of! now we jsut need to get lockets down here too!

my thoughts exactly, Lummox!

I grew up on a v small island so was well used to nosiness - have kind of forgotten what it's like after 7 years of London! Am worriedly thinking "What will I actually DO all day??"

She's definitely working on her dh!

Excellent dinny!

( how strange, you've started this thread exactly the same way as I started mine, LOL look

excellent!
you will have to come down for a cuppa one day! that's what village life is all about! baking cakes and drinking tea!

Little things will suddenly take all day.

Not all cynical stuff though - realised the other day that we spend much more time now talking about and noticing the countryside and changing seasons and stuff. Sounds a bit corny, but is very lovely too.

OMG, how weird is that?? SERIOUSLY hadn't seen it! Obviously "whoo-hoo" is the only suitable emotion for one who's just exchanged!

Cannot BELIEVE we are out of here!! And also found out today dd has place at local school's nursery from Jan. Whoo hoo!

ladytophamhatt... where are you moving to?

is my plan to populate the entire south-east with mumsnetters working?????

Lummox, Starlover - asked dh where our breadmaker is hiding as plan to bake own bread/grow zillions of veg etc.

wooooah there. I think a breadmaker is going a bit far.

rural idylls are all very well, but really.

I'm alreadyin the south east SL, just moving further south.
From Surrey to Sussex

lth.... my plan.. it's really working! i am in sussex toooooooo! ooooooooh you might live very near me! you lucky thing

LOL, I asked Dh for a breadmaker for Xmas so that I can make our own too.

We'll all be wearing pinnies and baking within seconds of unpacking

where is sussex are you S?
I'm moving to Seaford.

wow that was quick in the end ! Is it the one east of Reigate, by say about 6 miles. If so my kids go to school very close by !!!

have been thinking will use Ocado for main shopping and then purchase seasonal veg from farm shop (when not growing our own, of course)

Lockets - no, she has an afternoon place in the nursery. Hey, you know the way they consider reception application separately (ie, being in the nursery is no guarantee of a place do you reckon that - in an unspoken way - if you're in the nursery you will get into reception?

oh i am in crawley so you're not really near me at all!

oh dinny, dinny, dinny.... you think you can get shopping delivered when you live in a village? ooooh noo!

lol

ocado won't bloody deliver to me neither will tesco!

ha, LIZS, did you decipher my cryptic location? suddenly got paranoid as is such a small place!

do they go to school in a village in-between there and reigate?

ooohhhhh, no, Starlover, you're kidding???

there is a Waitrose about 2 miles away - does that count?