Back to normal?
So, I’m back at my computer, back in Tábor. The only difference from two weeks ago is being physically exhausted from the horrible daily slog of the last 14 days, and the fact that our remaining worldly possessions are in a transit van somewhere.
Things went to plan… sort of. Many people turned up as arranged to collect their various Ebay purchases. This was mostly fine, though I spent a lot of time cleaning - especially garden furniture & the fridges & freezer… but I wanted people to be happy with their purchases. There were a couple of times where the buyer has not collected the item, & not bothered to contact us about it. Annoying to have to move things that we had sold in principle, in a van with absolutely no spare capacity. The charity shops and scrap metal merchants did very well out of us!
There were some great coincidences - like the day some students knocked on the door asking if they could have the enamel bath just as I was wondering how to dispose of it. They wanted to actually use it as a bath as their house was without one. I sent them away with that, an armchair & the radiator cover cupboard from the bathroom. And one guy asked if he could buy the ornamental grass I’d planted in the front garden! Read the rest of this entry »