My Bags Are Packed…
January 8, 2010 –
…I’m ready to go… Oh not quite but you know the song dont you? So my boxes arrived today. I ordered them online, no time to do it the old fashioned way, traipsing around local shops for their spare boxes, hardly any local shops left now anyway and supermarkets, well apparently they shred them right away. So the boxes arrived a day late because of the ‘snow’. Its not a problem and I expected them to be late. But dont you think all this chaos is a tad ludicrous?
Here’s the thing. We happen to live in a cold country. We can all pretty much vouch for the fact it will be cold in December, January and February with a higher likelihood of snow than say, Florida. So, methinks, is it not unreasonable to expect out of all the billions they take off us in tax, the government, both local and central could possibly have enough grit for a few months?, on standby you understand, just in case, and maybe throw it around a few roads and possibly streets so that good folks can get to work? And all this malarky of schools closing etc etc. (Shakes head in that disapproving manner). I had a boss once, he was from Scotland. Lovely fella. He used to stand and laugh at the chaos when there was a snowflake in Plymouth. Suggestion; why dont the powers that be in Westminster pick up the phone and have a wee word with the powers that be in Scotland? You know, about how to deal with a bit of snow. After all they have been managing perfectly well for years and years. Honestly, what are we like?! (There is a tip here, how not to make a good first impression with your new neighbours, mine being in Westminster hehehe)
Ahhh thats my little post new years rant over and done with! :)
So back to the packing. I am not taking much. Well, I didnt think I was taking much until I started packing. Well , there’s my make-up (thats enough for an artic lorry just there – only kidding, only kidding!). Clothes, given lots away so not too much but it all adds up. Books. Ahh my books. I cant leave those behind can I? I dont have novels or somesuch, mainly text books, non-fiction, how to’s and how not to’s. They’re coming. And my kitchen bits and pieces. I intend to have some major dinner parties so I must have my equipment. And thats it really, the rest is being sold off, even my car. Oh my. I cant see a need for a car in London. I cant be doing with stressing about parking spaces and so she has to go, bless her heart. If I cant possibly live without one though, I shall buy a shiny new one, oh what extravagance!
So, My loves, I am fully booked now in Plymouth. Its been very sad to say goodbye to some lovely chaps I have known over the years but promises of popping in to see me in London have been given, so thats nice. If I didnt get the chance to say ‘bye to you, then big kiss instead X and in the voice of Mae West, ‘Come up and see me sometime!’ (Apparently she didnt actually say that but we dont care do we?)
I am almost fully booked for the rest of January in London but please do contact me as I may have a teeny window in the new diary, and of course there is always Frisky February and I know of an excellent way to keep warm! ;)
To be continued….
