Hello and welcome to my blog. At the moment, Friday’s posts are all about the sheer slog of moving house under the English system. Of course, it could be far worse if we were selling and buying at the same time, but we decided very early on to do this a different way. We are very fortunate that we can afford to purchase our new home in advance of selling our present one. When we have moved out we will then hire a cleaner to blitz the mess and will put it up for sale. I really hope that it doesn’t take too long to sell!

This week has been very quiet really. We hadn’t heard from either the estate agent or solicitor until today and their queries were soon sorted out. We have been given a completion date at the beginning of May, so we are working towards that. In the meantime, I am trying to organise lists of things we will need (furniture and equipment) in the new house and also weed out the trash. Last week we got rid of about half of that trash in a skip, but we will definitely need another one before all of this is over. I have also found out that our local council will remove larger unwanted items, for a fee, that are too far gone to sell.

One issue that worries me is my piano. It originally belonged to my Grandpa, who was a piano teacher, but, since I had a stroke, I can no longer play. I have sent a few messages around, but I do have to make more of an effort to find someone who will take it away and, hopefully, give it a good home!

Apologies if I have written a lot of this before!

So, I have been trying to keep myself occupied for most of the week. My issues with depression have been getting seriously difficult to handle. My GP has increased my dose of the antidepressants, but the horrible “black moods” arrive at about 17.30 on most evenings now. I am also logging onto a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy course online using my iPad, but am really struggling to see the point or any benefit. 

A more positive thing is that I am now able to read ebooks again. I have decided to return to comfort reading and by that I mean revisiting some of my favourite books as ebooks. I have continued to log these on Goodreads and on my Wednesday Reading Roundup posts.

I did dress up a little on one day and wore a fairly cheap and cheerful scarf…

I have forgotten who I purchased this from and will add this information to the post if I remember. Anyway, it looks quite lovely with my silver grey cashmere v neck and the pretty silver and gold heart earrings.

This afternoon I walked to our nearby Post Office with Elder Son and wore the gorgeous Plumes en Fête scarf by Hermès with navy clothing. I was too tired to take a selfie, so I will try to do that next week.

Happy Weekend everyone!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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