This is becoming an absolute nightmare and three more weeks to go! Every day I sort, throw out and pack and mysteriously there seems to be ever more junk!!!!!!!!!! Masses of stuff has gone to charity shops and I've filled two whole garbage bins that were so heavy I didn't think the truck would be able to lift them, but fortunately they were emptied successfully.
The backdrop to all this is bad news on both a macro and micro level. Not me personally, but dreadful things have been happening to friends: a drowning off Cancun in Mexico, husbands abandoning wives, sickness. And the floods in Queensland are unprecedented, with damage that will take months to fix and prices of fruit and vegetables going through the roof. Before we know it, we'll be having bushfires!
Somehow in this chaos I manage to practise the piano and swim every morning, and have coffee and meals with friends. I drive to the new house every couple of weeks with the car loaded up. Philip and Manami also have boxes everywhere, but are getting new curtains, lamps, and other lovely things for the bedrooms and gradually settling in. Emma is enjoying the pool and baby Hugo sleeps peacefully through it all!
The backdrop to all this is bad news on both a macro and micro level. Not me personally, but dreadful things have been happening to friends: a drowning off Cancun in Mexico, husbands abandoning wives, sickness. And the floods in Queensland are unprecedented, with damage that will take months to fix and prices of fruit and vegetables going through the roof. Before we know it, we'll be having bushfires!
Somehow in this chaos I manage to practise the piano and swim every morning, and have coffee and meals with friends. I drive to the new house every couple of weeks with the car loaded up. Philip and Manami also have boxes everywhere, but are getting new curtains, lamps, and other lovely things for the bedrooms and gradually settling in. Emma is enjoying the pool and baby Hugo sleeps peacefully through it all!
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