Oct 18, 2023·edited Oct 18, 2023Liked by Christina Patterson
Great that you're nearly settled - or at least enough to resume your substack pieces.
Following what will hopefully be our last move before the care home, I reflected recently that despite some 14 moves in 35 years we'd only once had the stress of buying and moving at the same time - the moves have been into tied accommodation (as a missionary and then a vicar) and the purchases have only ever been of 'investment properties' we've let out to students or holiday-makers. But this final move into a 'forever home' (which sounds very like your erstwhile 17th-century cottage) has indeed precipitated a flurry of knocking down, refitting, nesting & general turning of a house into a home.
A year on and we're almost done! Now, just the very painful process of thinning out the excess piles of books, nik-naks, books, clothes, books and books! (so far I've only got rid of books I've also got electronically).
Great that you're nearly settled - or at least enough to resume your substack pieces.
Following what will hopefully be our last move before the care home, I reflected recently that despite some 14 moves in 35 years we'd only once had the stress of buying and moving at the same time - the moves have been into tied accommodation (as a missionary and then a vicar) and the purchases have only ever been of 'investment properties' we've let out to students or holiday-makers. But this final move into a 'forever home' (which sounds very like your erstwhile 17th-century cottage) has indeed precipitated a flurry of knocking down, refitting, nesting & general turning of a house into a home.
A year on and we're almost done! Now, just the very painful process of thinning out the excess piles of books, nik-naks, books, clothes, books and books! (so far I've only got rid of books I've also got electronically).
I wish you happy settling in Stoke Newington.