New Home

Published on by Margaret

Christmas is now only a few days away and I’m nowhere nearly ready.

We’re in our new house. It had been empty for nearly three weeks and it was cold! We arrived before our furniture with just a few things to keep us going. The removal men we’re due to come on Monday but didn’t arrive until Tuesday and now we’re surrounded by boxes. I have to admit that quite a lot of them are boxes of books and I haven’t even unpacked one of them yet. There is no time to read, except for a few pages of Drood, which is promising to be interesting and at 700+ pages will keep me going well into the new year.

We expected cold weather moving from the south of England up to the north, but so far it’s been warmer here than at our old house. I don’t suppose it’ll stay like that and heavy snow is forecast for Saturday.  We’re enjoying the scenery here – below is a photo taken from our kitchen window. I’m looking forward to exploring the area. When we’re more sorted I’ll take more photos and change the blog header – but for now it’s still showing part of the garden from the old house taken in the summer!

view from kitchen

Lucy has settled quite well although she isn’t allowed out yet. For a cat who complained loudly when we drove 10 minutes to the vet’s, she was remarkably quiet during the 10 hour journey here and after a few miles she only miaowed quietly a few times. And now that our belongings are all around us she’s a lot happier.

Lucy in kitchen

15 thoughts on “New Home”

  1. Margaret, congratulation on making it to the new house. I know you are relieved to have part of the job done. You’ll get it all sorted out soon and unpacked. This Christmas season may be a bit more muddled than you usually have, but it will be a Christmas to remember with lots of stories I’m sure. Take care! I know that moving is exhausting.

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  2. Congratulations on your new home, and I love the photo of Lucy! Good luck with all the unpacking and organizing… this may be remembered as the “Christmas of the boxes”!

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  3. Hope you’ll all be very happy in your new home.Lucy looks as gorgeous as ever, the journey hasn’t detracted from her good looks!!! I LOVE CATS, I think you’ll realise that!!1

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  6. I could stand at your kitchen window for hours. It’s beautiful. I hope you are happy in your new home. I’m glad you are indoors before the bad weather comes rather than moving during bad weather. Thanks for posting. I was wondering how you were doing.

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  7. Happy new home! It looks lovely. And Lucy looks like she is adjusting. Drood was a good choice to leave out to read, as you won’t have to be unpacking many more for a while!

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  8. What a lovely view and from what I can tell, what a lovely house! I hope you get unpacked enough to enjoy the Holidays in your new place. Looking forward to more pictures!
    *smiles*

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  9. Welcome Home Margaret! I bet that you are relieved to be in your new abode. It is going to be fun to discover the best spot for each of your treasures. Now I am the one packing up and getting the house ready to sale… no fun yet.

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  10. Oh I forgot to tell you how lovely I thougt your view was from the kitchen and I couldn’t get over the green pastures… You just had a snow storm for three days straight with three feet of snow accumulating and a temperature right now of 4 degrees F.

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  12. Oh, Margaret, what a beautiful view! I can’t wait for more pictures. Did I miss a post on how much land you have? Is the big field yours? I love the floor and the yellow cupboard. Is that a sort of mudroom?

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  14. Congratulations on actually being in the new house…this will make for a memorable, albeit different, December/Xmas. BTW, I love the snowy picture at the top of your blog. V pretty!

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