It is dis one. (Drat. Classified just expired.)
Now we just have to…
- try to coerce some poor homestay student into staying with us
- break the news to our current landlords, who were hoping we wouldn’t need to move until nearly November
- switch over Internet
- redirect our mail
- pack up all our belongings, decluttering as needed
- buy (preferably through bartering loaves of bread or Helpdesk Man’s soul or summat, being a bit strapped for cash) a mattress, some bookshelves, a desk lamp, two desks, three chests of drawers and a drier in order to accomodate our new arrangements and the homestay student
- come up with the dosh for 3 week’s bond plus 1 week’s rent (see above and cash-strappedness)
- clean the house
- scrape paint off various windows and floors from dodgy paint jobs
- get someone in to clean the carpet to erase the presence of the snortlepig
- find someone to babysit the chickens, as Mother (who kindly agreed to adopt them if the landlord didn’t fancy the idea, which he doesn’t) is away for moving week
- empty the garage, oh my
and… am I missing anything? All before October 2.
But still. A house. Yay. Better than a dose of swine flu, I always say… with conviction and fervor these days, as it happens.
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