Wonwings diary-Back again after a rough ride
Well after months of flustration,hard work and sheer hard work I am back again ! to single handedly move a very full house of a lifetime collection of models,tools,books and photographs is a very demanding task that I do not recommend to anyone,but it had to be done and lets just hope that it will never have to be repeated again,on reflection if I had known what I do now then I would have sat firmly tight and got the courts to sort it out,as it happens we have experienced huge financial costs to ourselves,promises have been broken and we have also been the victims of bullying,on top of this many models were damaged beyond economical repair and had to be scrapped,this was mainly due to items being placed one on top of the other without consideration,in other words and this is a warning to others,removal people do the uplift and deliver to the other address,instead of placing items ie boxes in a neat and tidy pile they were moved into the rooms from the front one after the other,and in consequence I could not even get into the room without moving everything to get in and sort things out ! then there is the problem of finding things ? items are still missing despite a search to locate them,I would never have believed that things could get lost the way that they did,a box is a box and despite proper labelling items easily get misplaced.
The one thing that I was dreading was bad weather on the days of the two moves,the first garden items/sheds move was on a glorious sunny day,it was a good job that it was otherise there would have been one soggy heap of sheds/garden tools/contents of sheds etc,the sheds had suffered as they had stood for far too long in the sun and rain which had warped them because of the delays,it took a bit of heaving and extra brackets to get them back together again properly,all of the roof covering had suffered and required a lot of attention,the five sheds were erected single handed in three days and by the fourth the workbenches and tools had been added,my attention then turned to the house,one room was turned into my library and also houses my huge Meccano collection which had to be on the ground floor as it was very heavy,then you get things like gas fittings to the cooker that were not compatible despite telling the people concerned to make sure they were,and my nightmare the new Broadband connection,the day came when ntl were intending to install the cables,a major snag was that the installation in the street had been hacked in two when a neighbour had built his forecourt,further delays tht mssed the second slot put everything behind schedule,and then there was my computer which never worked from the moment it was unplugged in Warwick,it was over heating and stopping,it took a new video card,new cpu, major clean to get it working again,even despite thefact that it was moved by myself and travelled in the car.
So you can see it really was no easy task and I learned a lot of lessons along the way,my biggest advice to anyone is do not move unless you really have to,it is good to be back here again and writing the blog again,all I need to do now is to catch up with events here.
The whole operation has left me physically and mentally exhausted,only now can I sit back and think about the past few months and weeks,now is the time to get my strength back and start enjoying life again,but it really is right when they say that a major move takes a year out of your life,in my case probably two !
