Well Lorni and I worked trough till way after midnight last night, in fact Lorni kept going longer than I could as I just literally collapsed with total body exhaustion. I went to bed only to find the inflatable mattress had gone down so a few minutes were used up blowing it up again, Lorni came up a little later and we set the alarm to 6am as we still had stuff to finish off, After a bit of packing I took the dog out for his morning walk were we bumped into Tracey who we have known for years and years she is the local lolly pop lady and Harry loves her to bits.
Harry has more friends than me (Tracey)
After a few minutes in the field another of our friends turn up Christian and his dog Bonnie and another emotional good bye, it's all starting to get to me. After about an hour its back home feed Harry and then get back in the car for another trip to the tip one of around 50 that I have made since our decision to sell up and move.
Back home and it's time to pop into town to get some Euros and sort out prescriptions for our medications that we will need in Spain and inform the bank where we will be so our cards will still work. Back home again ad time to finish off the last little bits and bobs and then the removal van turns up, within no time at all the house is empty...
So now we have a couple of fold chairs two one PC chair and a blow up mattress. A quick trip to Halfords to get a new hands free phone kit for the car as the last one packed up, then we had to do something that Lorni has been dreading for a few years we had to go and pick Len's ashes up from the undertakers,she promised Len her father that she would spread his ashes in Spain.
I took a very emotional Lorni home where I noticed we still had a settee to get rid of so, we loaded the dam thing into the back of the car and back to the tip we went, we bumped into one the guys who work for the council a big black guy who always seems to be so miserable "you told me you were weren't coming back" he said "get out of here" then Lorni told him why we have been making so many trip to the tip. When we told him we were moving to Spain he smiled and when we told him where abouts he dropped his broom and gave Lorni a big hug he lives in a village not 20 minutes from where we are going he has lived there for over 25 years and only came tot he UK because of the employment problems in Spain a couple of years ago so now Mohammed has our number and we have his and we will see him and his wife and kids in January...small world eh? So back home again and just before tea our neighbour Julie turns up with card and chocolates in hand....
More tears followed, this is getting worse and worse so after exchanging address's again we said goodbye not more than a an hour passed and the doorbell went again this time its Sophia from next door with another box of chocolates and a card and more tears I had no idea we had so much influence on so man people going to miss them all.
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