The day before move-out

Tomorrow is the day we leave our lovely Abingdon house, and while it looks nothing like the lovely house we are used to - with furniture stacked up and boxes all over the place - we both feel very sad to be leaving and can't quite believe that tonight will be our last night sleeping here.

After getting back from Bristol yesterday we dashed around trying to get a lot more jobs ticked off, but somehow seemed to have lost a lot of the momentum that we had on Fri & Sat and didn't manage to power through the jobs as quickly as we had hoped. We were both exhausted, which didn't help.

We failed on our very first job of the day yesterday - we tried to donate several boxes of bric a brac, toys, etc. to a charity but they refused to take it, saying that they were only open for selling, not for taking anything in! We both felt quite annoyed and frustrated at not being able to tick a job off and as a result I've had to take the morning off work today to run errands to the charity shop, tip etc.

The good news is that Emmaus, the Oxford-based homeless charity, came round this morning and have taken away almost all of the spare furniture - the only thing they wouldn't take was a double bed, so we will have to scratch our heads and work out a way to dispose of that tomorrow!

Stuart has gone back to Birmimgham today to continue work on his Mum's bathroom, but is coming back this evening to try and get the last few bits done before the removal men arrive in the morning.

We've still had no news from Italy regarding the bank/the final meeting for the house purchase, although we had an email from the current owner, Keith, over the weekend. Keith's email was a little incomprehensible (nothing unusual), but it was at least good to hear from him and there was nothing to suggest the whole house sale is off or anything as drastic as that!

~ Helen