Stormy Weather

[amateur51]

I have obviously piqued no one's interest in my forthcoming removal and yet questions about moss receive a lush response. Vive l'indifference!

We need more drama, more insights, Throppers. What are French Pickfords like? Do they conform to comforting national stereotypes?

Best of luck for the great surge Blighty-wards and I do hope that all arrives safely and in one piece. Are you returning to a familiar place or is the Blighty end unknown territory? (you see how we yearn for detail )

[antongould]

I have obviously piqued no one's interest in my forthcoming removal and yet questions about moss receive a lush response. Vive l'indifference!

Good luck Throps hope all goes well, in, yet another, hour of need your country needs you......

[Anna]

We need more drama, more insights, Throppers. What are French Pickfords like? Do they conform to comforting national stereotypes?
Best of luck for the great surge Blighty-wards and I do hope that all arrives safely and in one piece. Are you returning to a familiar place or is the Blighty end unknown territory? (you see how we yearn for detail )

Exactly! We need to know which part of France he is leaving for which part of the UK and why this move has come about, is it for work or tax purposes? Do pets or children have to be transported? Are you renting or buying? So many unanswered questions .....

Well, if this is the much-promised Bank Holiday weather, I want out.
Up here on the fells, it is sheeting down with rain, has been for hours, driven by brisk and not very friendly westerly, and visibility is such that i cannot actually see the tops of any hills in any direction. Huh!

Sorry to hear that DracoM, have just looked at the Met Office and there are only three rainclouds over the UK, two in West Scotland and one directly over you! But never fear, although your day will be constant rain - tomorrow you will be dry and warm! (It's reasonably warm here but uniform grey cloud)

[amateur51]

Exactly! We need to know which part of France he is leaving for which part of the UK and why this move has come about, is it for work or tax purposes? Do pets or children have to be transported? Are you renting or buying? So many unanswered questions .....

Great supplementaries, Comrade Anna

[eighthobstruction]

Well, if this is the much-promised Bank Holiday weather, I want out.
Up here on the fells, it is sheeting down with rain, has been for hours, driven by brisk and not very friendly westerly, and visibility is such that i cannot actually see the tops of any hills in any direction.

Huh!

Yes same 50 miles from you DracoM....if it heats up tomorrow , then it will be humid....then thunderstorms no doubt....then flash floods.....still better here than the lands of tarmac and concrete....

[Petrushka]

It's reasonably warm here but uniform grey cloud

That just about sums it up for here too. Predictions of a scorcher have been well wide of the mark.

[Thropplenoggin]

That's more like it! Thanks, AG et al for your kind words and curiosity.

1) Ams: We've engaged Clark & Rose, English removal folk, whose credentials date back to 1906.
2) Upping sticks from Magny-en-Vexin(g) (Vinteuil's pun) for sunny(?) St Albans
3) I come in search of gainful employ and a publisher for two manuscripts (novels both)
4) Anna: Two cats, both females, both chipped and with passports. One sporting an unsightly scab on her forehead. Vet's given her the all clear, but will the French customs concur?
5) Our goods go on ahead of us tomorrow. We follow a day later via Eurotunnel, to get the keys to our rented modern townhouse. Our goods arrive on Wednesday, leaving me
6) precious little time to get t'internet hooked up for Saturday's Proms ticket opening!
7) Today has been spent cleaning once-green, now-white again volets (wooden shutters), and packing, sorting, shredding, dumping, etc., etc. That delightful feeling of purgation has been replaced with frustration at the neverending stuff I've/we've accumulated and dragged around the globe with us. CD collection was the last to be packed, but don't worry, FHG, it's secure

Time for tea.

p.s. Weather is bright, sunny, not too hot...ideal volet-cleaning weather, in fact.

[amateur51]

That's more like it! Thanks, AG et al for your kind words and curiosity.

1) Ams: We've engaged Clark & Rose, English removal folk, whose credentials date back to 1906.
2) Upping sticks from Magny-en-Vexin(g) (Vinteuil's pun) for sunny(?) St Albans
3) I come in search of gainful employ and a publisher for two manuscripts (novels both)
4) Anna: Two cats, both females, both chipped and with passports. One sporting an unsightly scab on her forehead. Vet's given her the all clear, but will the French customs concur?
5) Our goods go on ahead of us tomorrow. We follow a day later via Eurotunnel, to get the keys to our rented modern townhouse. Our goods arrive on Wednesday, leaving me
6) precious little time to get t'internet hooked up for Saturday's Proms ticket opening!
7) Today has been spent cleaning once-green, now-white again volets (wooden shutters), and packing, sorting, shredding, dumping, etc., etc. That delightful feeling of purgation has been replaced with frustration at the neverending stuff I've/we've accumulated and dragged around the globe with us. CD collection was the last to be packed, but don't worry, FHG, it's secure

Time for tea.

p.s. Weather is bright, sunny, not too hot...ideal volet-cleaning weather, in fact.

You see how he blossoms from a moment's attention?

Bon voyage, mon Capitan

[Salutes flag. Waits for bugle call to start. Not a sausage. Salutes again. They've all gone home. I don't like this game no more]

[Thropplenoggin]

You see how he blossoms from a moment's attention?

Bon voyage, mon Capitan

[Salutes flag. Waits for bugle call to start. Not a sausage. Salutes again. They've all gone home. I don't like this game no more]

Only Caliban is conspicuous by his absence. But then he has been for about 10 days now.







I expect I'm on his 'ignore' list.

[amateur51]

Only Caliban is conspicuous by his absence. But then he has been for about 10 days now.







I expect I'm on his 'ignore' list.

My spies tell me that he is entertaining houseguests from la belle France until the morrow

[Anna]

4) Anna: Two cats, both females, both chipped and with passports. One sporting an unsightly scab on her forehead. Vet's given her the all clear, but will the French customs concur?

Two cats! Do they go in the removal van or do you take them on the train? (Whenever I've had to transport cats it has had an unfortunate effect on their bowels ..... !)
Thanks for all the info, we can now empathise with you. Are you familiar with St. Albans, any family links there? (I'm just being nosy, never been, the Cathedral has good music I think)

[Thropplenoggin]

Two cats! Do they go in the removal van or do you take them on the train? (Whenever I've had to transport cats it has had an unfortunate effect on their bowels ..... !)
Thanks for all the info, we can now empathise with you. Are you familiar with St. Albans, any family links there? (I'm just being nosy, never been, the Cathedral has good music I think)

No. The locale was chosen for its proximity to the Great Wen, though Thropplenoggin's grandmother (on pater's side) did reside there when he (I) was young and easy under the apple boughs. I visited twice when house-hunting recently, and fell under the sway of its picturesque charms and plentiful old pubs.

The cats will come with us i'the car. They have already experienced a ferry to England, a rough crossing that induced vomitus in one of them, so the Eurotunnel should be smooth, um, sailing in comparison.

[gurnemanz]

Lovely day here in Wilts. Flymo has just made it its opening appearance of the new season and we are encouraged to go on our first Sunday afternoon outing - probably an NGS garden this afternoon.

Sorry to introduce a sour note on cats, but to us non-owners, they are just a pest. Left to roam free by neighbours they will happily kill wild birds, use my garden as a toilet and dig up seed beds. When our daughter was small I actually saw one of them attacking my her pet rabbit by biting its neck. We had to take it half dead to the vet to be put down. Cost my daughter much anguish and me 25 Quid.

[eighthobstruction]

Pest!!....correct....

[Serial_Apologist]

No. The locale was chosen for its proximity to the Great Wen, though Thropplenoggin's grandmother (on pater's side) did reside there when he (I) was young and easy under the apple boughs. I visited twice when house-hunting recently, and fell under the sway of its picturesque charms and plentiful old pubs.

The cats will come with us i'the car. They have already experienced a ferry to England, a rough crossing that induced vomitus in one of them, so the Eurotunnel should be smooth, um, sailing in comparison.

Good luck for the move and settling in in St Albans, Thropplenoggin - the few times I've visited the city it has always struck me as a friendly as well as attractive and historic place, with, as you say, some old pubs, one of which is one of many claiming itself to be the oldest in the country!