Keys at last...

So the big Friday! A sense of tiredness and unreality, this morning, even a strange twitchiness even though we were contacted early by the solicitor to say everything had gone through. Lorraine and I pottered about packing the car, and then locking everything up, as Pat and Maureen were in Devon for the wedding of Louise and Will and cramming the cats into the car. Brian in the back, and Calliope on my lap. We set off at about one pm, and then ignored the sat nav and drove the route we always thought would be the best along the motorways. However, this proved to be a bit of a mistake. All a bit stressful with Calliope howling continually for two hours on my lap. We pulled up Paradise Park garden centre where Lorraine nipped out to get some cat litter, and treats of new bowls and a catnip toys each.

Then to Seaford, where Lorraine parked near the estate agent, and passing the hot potato of Calliope over to Lorraine, I legged out and got the keys. From there a one minute drive to park outside our new house. Grabbed the cats and got them in, then unpacked the car of quite a bit of food, clothes and some essentials, not to mention cat-calming pheromones. 

Still having that sense of unreality. The house had been left in a very clean state, and I when I whizzed about hoovering there was nothing to pick up. Washing surfaces and so on. Walking into the garden and pinching ourselves in our rooms. Lorraine and I had been looking at it so long on estate agents photos, it felt a bit weird to see it in the flesh. The kitchen seemed a little bit smaller, and squarer but still a perfect size, other bits seemed larger, and the amount of space in the garden is fabulous.

We had bought with us two folding camping chairs which we sat in. I went to Trawlers opposite Seaford Station, no more than four minutes away, and ordered two medium fish and chips with mushy peas. They were delicious when we ate them in our new kitchen.  

The previous owners had left a pulldown bed, and left it made up so we had a bed, to which we retired very earl, with the cats sleeping on it too.