Cultured Views

And it all started out so well, so optimistically. But it is all behind us now except for one important aspect  – we still have a small mountain of household items left in our French property to bring back to the UK. They are all boxed up though, I spent the better part of August 2009 – in baking southern France heat – packing, taping, wrapping all the odds and ends we accumulated over our five years there. Five years…it hardly seems we were there that long!

Now that the kids are ready to go back to school it will be one of us – himself – going back over to finalise the moving and he will be meeting the removalists over there at the property. We have been getting some quote for the storage side of things as where we are right now there is no room here for what we have – we went from living in a 12 room house to squeezing into a three bedroom semi and our seems are bursting as it is. Storage is relatively easy to organise though and not as expensive as we’d expected. The nearer to the city it tends to be dearer, for example if you are near London and want to put some things into storage Hayes location will be a different quote to somewhere rural, but not all that much higher by any means.

Then again it is easy to underestimate what you actually have packed away, though I packed it al and I know just how much we are dealing with here…we need another house to accommodate it all!

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