Moving, moving, moving

TTony

The day has arrived.

The house move has begun, and the move out is about half done.  

5 guys & two trucks arrived at 0800 and spent a few hours drinking tea, in between which they seemed to empty a large part of the house, garage and workshop.  Similar deal tomorrow to complete the move out, and then we head North (all of 15 miles) and reverse the process.

Then we spend a few years asking "which box did we put that thing in?" and "have you seen that box?" (and "why did we bother packing and moving this?")

The house we're leaving behind is just about perfect, after we've spent the last 18mths doing it up (for sale), which means there's nothing more we can do to it, and it doesn't quite tick all our boxes.  The next house offers "scope for modernisation" so we'll have a few years of spending money & time on it, but it has the definite potential to tick those missing boxes - which is the whole point really.

I hope.



New workshop & mower store are going on the concrete slab (45' x 20') at the right end of the driveway sometime early in the New Year.

Then the current garage will be converted into a gym & wetroom, plus a properly insulated guitar room.  Heating needs sorting out (new boiler & rads), then it'll be time to mow the lawn.  

Then it'll be time to mow the lawn.  

And then it'll be time to mow the lawn again.

Log cabin at the top end of the garden is already being called the "mother-in-law" annexe, which is a result.  Unless it'd be better used as a proper studio ... we shall see.

This time tomorrow, I expect to be (a) absolutely exhausted, and (b) wined.

octatonic

Good luck.

quarky

Wow. That looks amazing. No doubt it will be worth it in the end!

Guitar_Slinger

TTony said:

Log cabin at the top end of the garden is already being called the "mother-in-law" annexe, which is a result.

If it were me, I'd have buried her under the concrete slab... harder for foxes, once she goes a bit "gamey".

Looks lovely, good luck with it all.

TTony

Guitar_Slinger said:

TTony said:

Log cabin at the top end of the garden is already being called the "mother-in-law" annexe, which is a result.

If it were me, I'd have buried her under the concrete slab... harder for foxes, once she goes a bit "gamey".

I'm not digging that up just to tuck her away neatly.  To be fair, she volunteered for the log cabin, so she's not so bad.


[edit] and she'd only visit very occasionally.

I think ...

BigMonka

That's stunning, what a place to live!
You definitely need to mow an amusing word in all that grass so you can find it on google maps in a couple of years and have a good snigger.

ArchtopDave

When's the first Fretboard Gasfest Chez Tony then!!!

TTony

ArchtopDave said:

When's the first Fretboard Gasfest Chez Tony then!!!

Bring one of your creations, and you'll always be welcome @ArchtopDave ;

breakstuff

Wow!That looks stunning.

Congrats.

boogieman

Niiiice. Good luck with the move. 

Emp_Fab

I never knew TTony was such a rich man.  I've always liked Tony - a really great guy.

jonnyburgo

Looks like a lovely spot that does Tony, you sure the gardens big enough?

Fretwired

With a plot that size you could join the EU as a small country .. good luck. You need some goats. They'll control the grass. What part of the world is it?

Heartfeltdawn

You should go the full Daltrey and get the salmon farm in there

robgilmo

I feel your pain, we are moving the first week in January, wont have the help of 5 blokes though.

monquixote

Good luck Tony looks ace!

Teetonetal

Good luck. We just moved from a 3.5 room flat to a 5 room flat and that was horrific, admittedly a 5 day old baby in tow added to the complications... but really moving house is never fun. 

Hope it goes super smooth.

rsvmark

Mulch don't collect! 

TTony

Apparently I have to unplug the router ....

Hopefull, I'll be back one day.

roundthebend

Nice pad. This isn't the one in Norfolk, or is it a different one in Norfolk? Wherever it is, I'm jealous and hoping that it all works out and inspires me to do similar.

Moe_Zambeek

That is quite a pile.

agreed with the other poster that the small paddock is ripe with creative mowing opportunities!