Well Timed

Yesterday, in the time we’re doing all the packing up and sorting out of the current house before moving today, Herself had an interview in Cambridge. The letter informing her of the interview date only came through on Monday, so hile it’s all gone OK, it’s all been on very short notice, and on one of our busiest weeks.

In the end, I drove us both into Cambridge yesterday morning at some ungodly hour, was in my office just after the building opened, and then Herself went to the interview, then the presentation she needed to make a couple of hours later. And as timing worked out, she finished, and came to meet me in Cambridge just as I was finishing work, so a quick(ish) drive back to home, and then on with the preparations.

Fortunately, we’ve had help from the in-laws, which had all been planned out way before news of the interview and so on came through. They arrived on Wednesday night, and got one hell of a lot done around the two houses yesterday.

Things are just about ready for us now to move in. Well, when I say ‘ready’ I mean “we’ve done one hell of a lot, and it’s infinitely better than it was, but we’ve still got a long way to go…”. Then again, through the bank holiday weekend, we’ll get a lot more done.

It’s going to be good, getting in to the new place at last. The last couple of weeks have been a nightmare, getting people organised to come in, forgetting to work on Norfolk Time (sorry, Toime) where ‘yes we’ll definitely be done by the 25th’ translates into ‘or maybe we’ll actually do the work on the 26th’. In some ways I’m amazed that D4D™ hasn’t contained more rants about tosspot tradesmen this week, but there we go, them’s the breaks. I’ll probably vent all that stuff once everything’s done.

And just to top things off this week, Herself’s car has to go in the garage today. We discovered yesterday that one of the door locks has completely jammed= so badly that the garage can’t even get it to lock manually- and just to be a pain, it’s jammed in the open position. No idea how long it’s been like that, of course, but once we know about it, it has to be fixed ASAP. On the day we move, as it turns out.

Nice to see that the art of timing is alive and well.

UPDATE : She got offered the job! Yay!