Counting down!!

Categories: gloria, migration, sewing, my-beloved

Date: 04 October 2008 20:39:28

Right, with credit cards out of the way, I've been focusing on lots of other stuff.

I've handed in my NOTICE at work to finish on the 25th. That's in 3 weeks this afternoon! It is now just about time to start the "Countdown to France". Some fabulous friends and family are helping out.

The plan for the MOVE is coming together. I'm being all efficient and organisey and so far it goes thus:

Lovely Sister and her partner are loaning me their garage's hire van.

Stupendous D is lending me her only husband (with his Perfect French) who is going to fetch the van and pick up my Maman.

Myself and a handpicked couple of helpers will load the van so I can relax that nothing in there will budge or break.

My Marvellous Maman is chipping in again, after surviving this summer's drive, and getting the full van to "Bon Port" with me in it too.

I'm sure there'll be more to it in some shape or form by the time moving happens, especially as I've been asked by a friend whether someone they know could borrow the spare space in the van & pay me part of the cost of moving for us to drop some furniture off partway down for their 'gite'. Could be interesting!

Offers have come from far and wide for help and it's grand to be reminded of people's SUPPORT. It's also fun thinking of all the people who are already eager to VISIT. Fabulous stuff. I don't know where put you when you visit but it'll be awesome to catch up all the same :)

I've been trying to keep warm. Goodness... Everyone knows the weather has been miserable over the summer but this sudden COLD? Yikes! It makes any days of beautiful SUNSHINE we've felt fade into misty memories.

So today, I tried on my latest CREATION. Something else I've been up to, due to management not allowing us to do as much overtime, is sewing. My friends T and D are getting married this December... in Lapland!! Sadly it's way out of my budget, else I'd be a bridesmaid, but failing that, I've been hard at work making the ladies in the party some awesomely warm an fluffy CAPES. I've done 99% of the stitching of the bridesmaid's cape and tried it on to show Fabrice. I'm so proud of my work. I sort of knew I could do it, but the fact I've done it is greater yet. Wowey! And I was so very very warm in it which is what they're for. Hehe! I now have to carry on with the second one.

Capes aren't the only thing I've been sewing.

I've started making material shopping BAGS to do something straight forward between stages of cape creation.

I've repaired lots of bits & bobs. The bits are mostly mine. Amongst the bobs were a number of my mates' Colyn's shorts which we sorted because they're moving house too and one afternoon we went through their whole wardrobe sorting out bags to keep or take to a charity shop. We did giggle...

My BELOVED is still doing his best to not get too bored of the 4 walls of the flat and his leg is healing slowly. He may not believe me but he's really brave & doing very well. I get to hear about the Terry Pratchett books for which he's been raiding the local library. Those are in French. I've found lots on the market over here for us to read in English.

If anyone has any spares or spots any, do give me a shout. I've written the list of those I've already bought.

GUY's back here in the same ward as before. Bristol didn't work out. Maybe in a year or 2. But I'm not sure he'll move forwards where he is at the moment. I'm not happy with some of the work lacking where his social worker is concerned. I think he could have been supported better and some essential paperwork didn't get done. It speaks to me of not giving a monkeys about him and not being bothered to do things properly.
He needs all the PRAYers we can give and then some. Once I've moved at the end of this month there will be noone up here for him. I did HOPE some one would draw alongside him and get a heart for him in all this which would help rebuild his worth a little. I don't hope much on that now. We somehow need to sort out a move to near Dad's.
I'm not sure what to ask for.

I've not been able to visit him yet since he's arrive back up here and I'd like to. I'm not sure how he'll welcome me. Pray I take courage and go.

I've not yet got a JOB in France. Now van plans are settled I should gain free brain space to face the all-scary CV overhaul & translation. I've not yet worked in France. I'm simultaneously at peace and majorly worried. My CV is essential!

Marathon over. It is 4 weeks worth of wanting to write and not getting to for many reasons.

Phew!

xxx