Yes, I can hear you cry, you’ve been off for a long time 😉
We are beetling off to Devon this week to stare at our retirement flat, take some measurements and start thinking about What To Do Next :??:
We’re moving and retiring at the end of May, but I want to get some basics sorted out before we go so it will be easier once we finally move in!
Haven’t had ANY time for thinking about it so far … but no doubt we will make it up as we go along!
First priority I think |-| is working out how to build storage into the flat, as there are no fitted cupboards etc.
That’ll keep us quiet for a while :yes:
As there’s no broadband (yet) at the flat I won’t be on here for a while, so take care and talk to you soon! :wave:
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All the very best with your move.God Speed A wonderfully exciting opportunity to start again . . . . doing it all again in the same way !
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Thanks, BB – doing it all again indeed, but this time differently, I hope!
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Gosh….all exciting stuff! I love the newness of a new homw and wondering where on earth stuff will fit and go and so on….have a smashin time..I’m off to the lakes soon so will catch up with you in a week or so.xxxxx
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Have you had a lovely time??? did it rain????
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How exciting, didn’t think you were old enough to retire yer 😀 Enjoy your visit.
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You are my favourite person 😉
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You are going to be occupied. It’s not really a slow stroll into retirement, is it. It’ll be more like a steam roll through it to the other side by the sounds of things.
All the best with all the measuring and moving.
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Thank you! I reckon the steel of the measuring rule reached white-hot before we’d finished 😉
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A white hot steel rule should be malleable.
😉
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By the time it had been held under a cold tap it was as good as anything Wayland made! although I am not sure if there are literature antecedents to doing battle with a measuring rule. 🙄
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Who or what is Wayland? I have found some interesting reference that really don’t seem to be quite up your street.
What has the measuring rule done to you?
😉
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He was a legendary master blacksmith in Old Norse mythology, and is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon poem ‘Beowulf’ as the maker of Beowulf’s breastplate!
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That is interesting; he did not come up in my initial researches though, I am sure Wayland would if I searched under ‘Beowulf’. 🙂
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Sometimes spelt ‘Weyland’ ‘Weland’ or ‘Welund’ as of course spelling was not standardised that far back. I find it fascinating that he was such a hero to the Anglo-Saxons, who of course were no slouches making superbly-crafted swords themselves.
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Any ideas as to why that would be? I haven’t read Beowulf, though I heard on snippets on the radio with the more recent translation.
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For my money, by far the best translation is by Seamus Heaney, who does it with the eye of a poet and manages to maintain the distinctive line divisions and Anglo-Saxon alliteration.
As for the swords, just for fun there is a (silent) YouTube video of a modern master forger making the best of the swords found so far http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mcdlscr3eY
I find it all very fascinating and am constantly amazed that the Anglo-Saxons were so immensely skilled without, of course, any of our modern aids.
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I’m not quite an expert after watching the video – glad it was silent – however, it does raise some technical questions which perhaps, local metallurgical brain can resolve for me. Fascinating to see how people are playing with forensic design.
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Wow how ex-sciting!!:) Have a good stare at in and everything! Look forward to you coming back!
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Lots of furniture-stalking |-| and Hub measuring anything that didn’t move 😉
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😀 I like it!
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Sounds good gilly.xx
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Thanks, Jane! Hope you’re enjoying the spring.
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I hadn’t realised you’d finally got somewhere I must have missed that. Have a lovely time :yes: xx
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It’s all taken ages so it was easy to lose track! Now lots of challenges as to how we can fit a gallon into a pint pot, moving from a 6-bed Edwardian vicarage to a flat! … apart from going down to our favourite pub and polishing off a pint there, of course 😉
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See you when you get back. You can always pop into an internet cafe to let us know how you are progressing.
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Hi there Pete – back amongst the litter of our inner city paradise after much measuring and furniture-staring!
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You’re off on ‘ A very Big Adventure’. Sure there aren’t five of you? No broadband !!! 🙄
Best Wishes for the move.
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If the kids have anything to do with it we will have far more than 5 to contend with, Liz 😉
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Travel safely…..:yes: Plenty food for thought…
Mind you…having movved around a ‘bit’ might just – ‘just’ – give you an edge over others in the task of ‘downsizing’…:roll: All Good Wishes with the ‘process’…Hugs! :)xx
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thanks very much! Lots of measuring and meditation on prices, sizes etc :yes:
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HUGS! Take Care! So many other variables…AT THIS STAGE of Life! ;)xx
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:yes: now don’t rub it in 😉
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HUGS! HUGS! HUGS! You’ll need as many as you can get….I’m always here — a short distance along the coast….EASTWARDS!!!! :)xx
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thank you very much. You never know – I might arrive to collect all those hugs one day!! 8|
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oh gosh we will be neighbours
xx
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Where do you hang out, Stevie?
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Have a lovely time …. ~x~
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Thanks, Spicey! Hope you’re feeling a bit more on an ‘even keel’ … hugs!
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Many thanks ~x~
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Michael Frayn has 120 metres of book shelves !I’m jealous.
Good luck with the travelling.
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OMG…didn’t realise you were moving that quick!!!!
Well, I know about storage as I am sure many others do, wish you luck on that one. Is like Becci says…. “Got to be able to put the Xmas Tree away”
Have fun and wait for your news.
P xx
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Moving finally at the end of May, Pauline :yes:
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