right lets try and catch up before it's 2008!
moving in day:
cats see the cat boxes come out and two (managed to catch the other, half in half out)do a runner even though I've blocked up the cat flap (not very effectively it turns out). Chase cats into garden, get clawed in face prising one off the fence, the other is long gone. Get two cats to the cattery, we guess we'll just leave the other to fend for himself for the weekend - that'll teach him! As we're about to leave, the cat comes back so we bustle him into a box and drop him off.
Get to Goring and pick up keys. I wake up noo by slamming the car door on return from the estate agents, she spends the rest of the journey crying loudly.
Get to the house to discover previous owners still in the process of moving out. Hole ourselves up in an empty room whilst DH goes off to try and find lunch.
Over an hour later still no sign of DH or our van that's bringing our boxes from London.
DH finally comes back with a sandwich, hurrah, but still no sign of the van
Van finally arrives - cue lots of unpacking to get things done before the kids bedtime.
Ocado arrive with food, hurrah. Takeaway pizza arrives, double hurrah.
The next day:
(I had called furniture village a few days previous to make sure everything is ok)
Get a call from DH (who has had to go to London for the day) to say Furniture Village haven't been paid for the furniture we're waiting for. Manage to pay and wait eagerly for van. Van comes, but is missing key items of furniture - delivery men look blankly at me. Cue more calls to FV. I now have to wait until monday to find out when other pieces will be delivered (we only ordered the stuff because they said it was in stock and could be delivered on the saturday) .
Other van arrives from Aspace with kids beds and furniture. We are missing instructions for the chest of drawers. BIL has come to help put things together and says we are missing pieces for one of the bunk beds. More phone calls, more waiting.
Sunday:
Waiting for washing machime and tumble dryer to arrive between 8 and 1. 1 comes and goes. I call Comet and they have tried to deliver to the wrong address (our London house number on Goring street). Manage to get them later in the afternoon.
Monday:
After much chasing it is confirmed that we'll have the rest of the FV stuff on wednesday.
Tuesday:
Receive missing stuff from Aspace, but it's the wrong pieces. After much huffing and puffing down the phone, we realise that I actually have the wrong instructions for the bunk bed, NOT the wrong pieces. Manage to put it together with no instructions - yay me!
Wednesday:
Kids are going loopy as I've not been able to take them out due to weather/ waiting for deliveries. I take them out puddle splashing and manage to ruin noo's shoes (turns out they are not as waterproof as they claimed to be). Very grumpy man for Virgin Media turns up to do phone line.
Thursday:
Very very eager to get home now, tidy up and pack kids in car, very confident that I know how to get back to London. Manage to get lost and end up adding another 45mins to journey much to noos annoyance.
Thats kind of about the main bits, but have been manic ever since, trying to do xmas shopping, ordering more stuff for new house, trying to plan ahead for new year- ahhh!! So much to do.
Anyhoo, hope everyone is good , and well done if you've read this far.