Being positive

 I love these light early summer mornings.  I get up around 5.00 am (Betty generally stays on my bed until daddy gets up), go downstairs, make a coffee....I love that first frothy coffee in the morning.  I sit in the lounge with the window open and listen to the birds, no other sounds apart from cows, sheep and cockerels in the distance.  It's an hour of quiet bliss, until husband gets up, comes down, the TV goes on straight away and he starts talking at me 😒.  As he did shift work and early starts all his working life, he's always been lively and wide awake the minute he gets up, whereas I'm not ready to face the world until I've been awake for a couple of hours and had 2 coffees.

Your comments did make me chuckle - Gemma's Person, especially!  Jayne, there are fairly new regulations in place now to protect tenants' rights, landlords cannot give tenants their marching orders without a very good reason - non-payment of rent or anti-social behaviour - so we're not likely to be evicted, thankfully.  HH - thank you for the hug, I do appreciate your friendship, as always.

I feel a bit more positive today, it was a bit of a bad week last week with one thing or another.  We are now waiting on bids we've placed on 4 properties, 2 of which are from about 5 weeks ago and it's the same Housing Association in both of those.....they obviously take their time!  I wish they'd all hurry up, but there's absolutely nothing we can do to move things along, we just have to be patient.  So, since I have absolutely no control over any of that, I just have to do things I can control.  So I've decided we're going to get rid of (sell, donate, tip) our surplus furniture, that'll free up space to store packed boxes.  We'll be downsizing, as you know, so we need to get rid of a couple of armchairs, our oak extendable dining table and chairs, husband's corner desk - all will be too big to fit into a smaller place.  I'm hoping there'll be room for my small craft desk and Ikea 8-cube unit which holds my craft stuff, so I won't get rid of those until we actually get to view a property.  Husband's wardrobe is massive, so we may well be getting shot of that too, replacing it with a much smaller one.  He'll have a small computer desk, which will go in a corner of the lounge.  We'll get a small 2-seater drop leaf table and 2 chairs, hopefully they'll fit in the kitchen in a new place, as it's doubtful we'll have a separate dining room like we have now.

Husband actually sold some of his surplus garden tools yesterday as a job lot - I advertised them for him on FB marketplace and, coincidentally, it was one of our neighbours who's bought them.  So that's a good start.  I did have the usual couple of time wasters asking stupid questions first.  I'm going to put some of the furniture on marketplace today, and we're going to do a tip run this afternoon.  Whilst husband agrees with me about getting rid of stuff and packing etc, he doesn't actually DO any of it unless I stand my ground and say Right, we're doing this today!  I have to take charge or else literally nothing gets done.

The forecast is for a lot of rain early tomorrow morning - thank goodness, the garden really needs it, both here and at the caravan.  I'm literally doing nothing in the garden here from now on, other than keeping it tidy.  I've earmarked which shrubs and roses I want to dig up and take to a new place.