SORTING

The house-moving exercise is slowly gathering momentum.

The gardener has mostly sorted out the front garden and will return next week to install some railway sleepers and then sort out the back garden.

The handyman has been tremendous and after a week away will return next week to complete the patching, painting and tiling.

The plumber returned today to install the new toilet in the second bathroom.

We've been busy sorting, selling, giving away and dumping the contents of the attic, the basement, the sheds and the cupboards. Really - I didn't know we had so much stuff.

I think we've 'broken the back' of it though (as well as our own backs) and will be able to get an appraisal and a listing going by mid-December.

As I said earlier, if nothing happens re the sale we will at least have benefitted from a good tidy up.

I had my 12-monthly check-up at the doctors this morning and my blood pressure is normal and the results of the blood test good. That's nice to know but as I haven't been eating raccoons so I'm not surprised.

FINGER LICKING GOOD