The days and weeks are whizzing past and so it’s Friday again! Welcome to my blog friends and visitors from near and far.

So, we have come to the end of the third week in our house moving story. Everything appears to be going well and moving forward. The brain ache about my identification documents seems to be almost at an end. Just this morning, I had a call from our doctor’s surgery to say that she has written and signed a letter for me and I will pick that up on Monday with Elder Son and will then put it in the post to the solicitor’s head office. They have also accepted my expired driving licence as proof of my identity.

I exist!

Well, that is a relief!

We have also been sent other documents about the house and I have been dealing with all of it using my iPad. Alongside all of this I have continued to develop my long list of furniture and equipment that we need for the new house. Much of our existing stuff is very tired and tatty. We spent a lot in the first ten years here to upgrade this house, but that is a long time ago and we definitely need a lot of new furniture and fittings to make our new place a comfortable home for us, as we age, and also ES.

I am feeling very conflicted about one piece. We have a very old piano which once belonged to my grandfather. I used to enjoy playing it very much, but found that I couldn’t carry on after the stroke in 2019. As it has not been played for such a long time, I am wondering if it is still in a good enough condition. Would anyone want it? My grandfather was an excellent pianist and actually taught piano, so it was probably a reasonable instrument. I think that it is possibly over 100 years old! Anyway, one of my tasks over the weekend will be to see what it sounds like now and then think about what to do with it. Perhaps we can give it to someone who wou,d make good use of it? I hope so.

The other task that I need to tackle is going through our old photos. We have a collection of albums from when our chaps were small. I couldn’t bring myself to throw out any photo, however distorted, awful, or badly posed they might be. This week, I found a local company who could scan them all onto a DVD or memory stick, but the cost is too high for the poor quality of the originals. Simply not worth the price. So, I have decided to pay the company to digitise important or precious photos, such as our wedding album, then I will scan selected family snaps myself, using our printer’s scanning function. I will focus on photos of people and a few selected ones of scenery and places. It may take a long time…

Right, that is definitely enough waffle for this week. I will leave you with a few recent scarf photos. These are more of the lovely new Hermès’ Le Caroussel du Tigre Royal, plus a quick snap of an outfit I put together the other day…

Well, that’s all for this week…

Happy weekend to you all!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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