House moved

[lnr]

Thankyou so much for the advice on what to expect with the packing and moving. It was very helpful, and it all went smoothly. Though you were all wrong on one point: they drank coffee not tea!

We had one chap to pack on Tuesday, and he was rather embarrassed not to have brought enough small boxes to pack the books: I think we've got much crockery, glasses and plates crammed into smallish cupboards than we expected. So the packed the books into big plastic crates on the morning of the move instead. They arrived at 8, and we were out of the house by 10:30 or so, and they'd finished unloading by about 1pm just as it started to rain.

By teatime we'd unpacked apart from half a crate of books and 2 boxes in the kitchen. So far nothing broken. We caught the train into town and finished the hoovering and cleaning and then Kevin came and inspected and took meter readings and gave us a large cheque for the deposit and the unused rent up to 17th October. And Becky kindly gave us a lift with the mop and hoover and got to see the house (with its large pile of flattened boxes in the middle of the living room. She kindly dropped us again by Shelford station so we could have dinner at Zara, which is a rather posh indian in the old station building. Very very tasty food, we'll definitely be back.

A fairly early night meant we were awake bright and early this morning, and we've finally got the computers put back together in our rather snug study. They're both working fine, and when we plugged in the ADSL modem it turns out AOL are more efficient than they advertise, as it's working fine. And since it's now in the same room as the computers we're on wires rather than wireless and feeling a little faster as a result. Sorted.

Squeeeeee! We like our new house. Fridge is supposed to arrive today and then we can go buy some food for it.

Those of you who are LJ friends of mine can find updated contact details in my original post, which is also linked from my Memories. If anyone else wants to know drop me an email (lnr@livejournal.com).

Comments

[aldabra]

You unpacked by teatime? I'm not entirely unpacked yet from four years ago.

[rmc28]

Ellie & Mike are scarily efficient in the packing-and-housemoving stakes. I still haven't got over how easy it was helping Ellie move out of Arden Road last March.

[lnr]

Mike's the great un-packer. In fact he's so enthusiastic I feel guilty if I don't help :-)

[dave holland (from livejournal.com)]

We still have not-unpacked boxes from our last-but-one house move, five years ago. I *think* they're stuff like university coursework. I keep proposing to throw them out unopened (because they're clearly not important) but Gina won't let me!

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Come over here and gaze at my pile of boxes to make yourself feel less unusual. :-)

[pm215]

not to have brought enough small boxes

Yeah, my lot didn't supply me with enough small boxes either. I want to know what all this really light bulky stuff is other people obviously have instead of dense stuff like books and electronics junk...

[lnr]

I think we also filled all but one of the bigger boxes he brought too :-)

I gather you're moving in tonight, rather than tomorrow? Good luck!

[pm215]

Thanks. (I'm moving in tonight; my Stuff arrives tomorrow morning, having sat in the lorry overnight.)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Removers hate books. Every time I move, the removers wander from room to room saying things like "how many books do you have?", and "more books?", and "it'a going to take ages to pack and move all these books"...

Congratulations to you, Ellie & Mike, on surviving (and staying sane thoughty) the whole stressful buying & removal faff, and I hope you'll both have long and happy stay out in the sticks!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Clothes? Shoes?

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

Bedding? When I moved last year it was just me and a man & a van, so a lot of stuff went in bin bags.

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

Well done, and I'm glad it went smoothly!

Thank you for the freezer defrosting tips on Monday, by the way. It is now nicely defrosted and I have a small anecdote about blow drying my freezer :-)

(S)

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Hooray for your new house, may you both be happy there for a long, long time. Wish the crack Cambridge packing and removal squadron lived a bit nearer to me; I fear my own move next month will be the usual bumbling chaos!

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Congratulations on house ;-)

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Congratulations on the new place - it sounds lovely.

Sounds like you should be writing a book: "how to move house for disorganised geeks". :)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, and congratulations! After all the stress in the final stages, you really deserved the move itself to go well.

I hope that you're with fridge, by now - and therefore with food, too!

[khrister.livejournal.com]

Having removalists do the grunt work is marvellous. Last time, they did the moving while I did the packing and unpacking, I might let them do some of the packing next time.

[deborah_c]

which is a rather posh indian in the old station building

Curiously, my great-great-(I think)-grandfather was the stationmaster at Great Shelford :-)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Happy new house! I shall have to wave at you every time I pass the Shelford road on the bus ;)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I just got the change-of-address note - Happy new house!

Everyone I know discovers at least one box of stuff that they had lost or never got around to opening from their last house move. Or two, or three...

Clearly you and Mike are the people to bribe with whiskey, beer and CAKE whenever there's a housemove looming.

How are the transport links? It looks like an easy cycle ride in, but all other forms of transport are going to be interesting at certain times of day: I suspect that half of Addenbrooke's lives within half a mile of you!

[lnr]

The cycling is indeed easy, 4.4 miles with a slight choice of route. Driving would be much the same if I were to drive, and probably take a similar time: I overtake drivers in the queues but they overtake me again on open stretches.

Bus every 10 minutes during the day takes a roundabout route via Addies and the station so takes longer to get into town, dunno how late they run. And the trains are only one an hour except at rush hour, but actually just cheaper than the bus off-peak, and you can take your bike. Sadly last train back is the 22:51.