“Hi hope evrefing is fine and i hopes you are happy here evrefing is misrebulle,” Bea wrote to her best friend Manon yesterday. This morning though there is a feeling a little like Christmas in the air. In Rupert’s briefcase there is a contract. At 10 o’clock we have a meeting to exchange said contract for a key to our new home. This is the closest we have got to leaving the hotel. The only thing that can go wrong now is that the landlady disagrees with something in the contract. I don’t think I’ll be able to breathe as she reads it.
It is a beautiful villa, slightly out of the centre of town but close to the office and also close to the new Corniche, which is not as posh or beautiful as the one we know and love, but it’s still a corniche. There are three floors which we will need to find furniture for and a huge roof terrace where we can sit outside when the weather allows. As a friend pointed out last night; it’s too hot for many months.
I have shopping lists buzzing around my brain; washing machine, fridge, soap, towels, beds, clothes hangers, tea-towels. I am trying to remember how big our bathroom is and how many of my products I can fit in there. I can’t believe that after almost five months on the road (we left Sainte Cecile in June) we may finally have a home to go to.
I hope we will all be less misrebulle come 10 o’clock……
Jag håller tummarna !
I really hope you get this house Helena!
Are you guys going to move back to Europe eventually?
You look good there making the “happy bulle” and this is great news! I am holding my thumbs too as well as crossing my fingers!
Fingers are crossed – hope it helps!
Hello all – got it! All very happy, off to IKEA (obviously) to buy contents.
HxPS Patricia to answer your question, yes eventually, but not for a while.
Congratulations !!
Haa IKEA one of the best suedish invention !!
I was so disapointed when I discovered that the closest one is 75km away from my place …. but somehow, my bank account is really happy ^^
I trust there is suitable guest accommodation for The Godfather.
Marvellous!!
xx
Congratulations! I felt for you having to spend so long in a hotel. A trailing spouse’s lot is not always an ‘appy one.
Thank you all…and Miller, you have your own room, bien sur!
Hx
Ah ,finally! I am so happy for you. Lucky to yet again have an IKEA around the corner. I would kill for a tube of Kalles right now.
Oh the lure of Ikea…. as I live quite near Lille (1hr) and whilst i’ve lived here a year i’ve not yet visited so I just may have to make it a priorty now you have made me nostalgic!
Congratulations on finally finding somewhere you can call home.
Perhaps now the misrebble will turn into evryfing gud!
Oh thank god at long last -well done you
Love Lead Angel XX