It's official and you read it here first - moving sucks. We may have shifted the major bits of furniture over last weekend but there was still a lot of smaller stuff to move, plus of course cleaning up the original rental so that it could be handed back with hopefully no loss of bond.
We had a waterbed at the old place (yeahhhh baby) and that needed to be drained. This entailed sticking a hosepipe in each of the four bladders in turn and siphoning it out to the drain downstairs. There's a fair amount of hydrostatic head once it's been sucked down two stories...
There's always leakage as well, which meant we needed to bail out the bed at regular intervals
It's almost done now - the old place has been fully cleaned and everything has been shifted. We just need the carpets to be cleaned and to give the garage a final sweep. But it's amazing how hard cleaning down the walls on even a two bedroom flat is.
Unfortunately rest is not an option for a bit - I fly down to Sydney tomorrow for three days, then the whole of the next week, then another three days. 11 days out of the next 15 working days in all, which is a bit rubbish.
Next month I may have some time to relax, make beer, ride bikes and enjoy our new place. Here's hoping.....
We had a waterbed at the old place (yeahhhh baby) and that needed to be drained. This entailed sticking a hosepipe in each of the four bladders in turn and siphoning it out to the drain downstairs. There's a fair amount of hydrostatic head once it's been sucked down two stories...
Unfortunately rest is not an option for a bit - I fly down to Sydney tomorrow for three days, then the whole of the next week, then another three days. 11 days out of the next 15 working days in all, which is a bit rubbish.
Next month I may have some time to relax, make beer, ride bikes and enjoy our new place. Here's hoping.....
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