A new start for Mooloo

Savvy_sewing

Errata wrote: »

Storage ideas etc: If the new house has a bedroom with alcoves each side of a chimney breast you could get the BF to fit a hanging rail with curtain pole at the front for your clothes; much cheaper than a hanging rail on wheels and I'm sure you'll have some fabric somewhere to make the curtains.
Is there a community furniture service near? The SW should know and it may have v cheap chests of drawers and wardrobes.
Can you start temporarily storing fabric/craft stuff/summer clothes you don't need immediately at your parents?
Can you start culling DGD's toys? There may be some she had when she was much younger and isn't interested in now - every little helps.

All great ideas Errata, I do not know what the new houses upstairs layout is. (officially I still do not know if it is the house we think, only the road name was given to me, and or if SNH will allocate it to me). But having thier forms arrive makes it feel a step closer.

I am suitably up, dressed and for once not in my jeans!. DGD is in her new tracksuit I got from holiday.
I think I just saw a SW car drive past.If so she is early.
Yep its her. Better go.

Savvy_sewing

Social workers have been. How unexpected one ofthem is leaving. Where have I heard that one.
The application to take on DGD under a guardianship is the next move. If I do that, sooner rather then later, then I will not hve to go through phase 2 of the fostering assessment. Which will mean they wlill not have to do further assessments of BF.
I have filled in the financial package information. Which will be prossessed in due course.

I have to put my receipts for petrol in.
I may be able to get some assistance with moving if it comes off. Take note MAY get.
The receipt for the heater and the Passport have gone through.

I hve a few bits I need to do in town so am off out now.

Savvy_sewing

we are on the move.
the house Molly and I thought it would be, is the house. the date provisionally is the 26th november. all systems go, go, go.

This afternoon I went to the housing association with all the relevant paperwork, and got them to photocopy it etc and started to ask some questions.
Although they were not at liberty to exactly tell me the exact property, by the time i spoke to the second girl in the office, it was confirmed that its the house we thought it was. I said that if that is the case then I would be accepting it. Due to the location and the garden etc for DGD.
She was very well behaved in their offices, until she decided to empty her water cup into the bin and for a minute they all looked in horror thinking that she was using it as a urinal!!! oops. But when they realised it was only water they all laughed.
I asked what options I have etc, and they have pointed me in the direction of the various local charities where i can get lowcost furniture, but the carpets are not something thats so easily helped. Their advisor 3rd person I then spoke to, said that I was on the wrong benefit for a Community Care Grant. (well I know that one, we have tried that before) so all I could get is a budgeting loan, so she has said to go back to the social workers and see if they will at least provide for DGD's room. We will see.
Anyway I now have 6 weeks today to be all up and packed and sorted.
Unless they have a hitch with the repairs and there is a delay.
This means that I will need to hand in my 2 months notice to the landlord here as soon as the letter arrives. I am not doing it until I have the letter. I do not want to be homeless at christmas.
So its got to be organisation, and all systems go, as soon as possible.
DS has just been told.
Biggest of Mooloo is 24 today. She is off out I think, havent heard since a reply to my morning Happy Birthday text. She is coming for DGD in the morning. I think BF is coming here now. Which is just as well. I really need some help in the garden, bringing up the last of the carrots, beets etc if they have not gone to wrack and ruin while I have been neglecting it. I would like to leave the garden dug over, and I shall put the things I want to keep back into my pots, and just display the pots in the garden until I move.

So much to think about, as its really happening. GULP

thorsoak

Fantastic news! A new house (with full central heating and fully insulated and lagged) - absolutely wonderful. And now it will be all hands to the pump to get you wrapped up and moved - but as you say, you've done it enough times before.

May this move be the one to your "forever" home Mooloo!

jackieglasgow

I am delighted to hear your news Mooloo, a new house in time for the New Year, and then there can be a new chapter in the Mooloo tale. Your forever home, how exciting!

Savvy_sewing

thorsoak wrote: »

Fantastic news! A new house (with full central heating and fully insulated and lagged) - absolutely wonderful. And now it will be all hands to the pump to get you wrapped up and moved - but as you say, you've done it enough times before.

May this move be the one to your "forever" home Mooloo!

Oh I do hope so. 40th move in 49 years of my life. I did stay in one place for only 10 days once, and the longest was 5 years and 1 month.

queen_of_string

A "council" tenancy is such a great thing to have. You will be so secure there, with proper maintenance and safety standards. As a social landlord, they have such obligations to their tenants and usually live up to them. I know there are sacrifices to be made, but I do feel that close buses and other amenities will free up so much time for you and mean you are assured mobility into the future. Some of the things you dreamed of for the cottage can exist in this new place, especially the garden ones!!.

Errata

I am so pleased for you. Your life will be so very much easier and you'll be in for Christmas ! A perfect start.
No more draughts, no more eye watering heating bills, no more having to remember to switch the immersion heater. no more spending vast amounts of time and petrol driving to get everything you need ........ the list goes on.

Savvy_sewing

Its all sounding so positive isnt it. My fears are being ready intime. This time there are no family here to help me, and for the first time I am unable to lift wardrobes and sofa's etc and put them into the back of my car! yes thats how I have mostly moved! Biggest of Mooloo is off to Amrica for acouple of weeks this week and will be unable to have DGD for me, and if I put her into extra daycare, I must way up the pros n cons of the costs. Two sessions in nursery will pay for a secondhand cooker for example.!
Talking of daycare, I will need to find new ones and get the funding sorted out, as my funding for her placement runs out at Christmas, and I think the nursery were sorting out the government funding next term.
But it will all come out in the wash. It always does.
How many moves have you all followed me so far?
The flat to cowley, cowley to Towcester, Towcester to here, you'll all be veterans as well!

Savvy_sewing

Time for DGD's bath andbedtime routine. Then as I am not off to oxford tonight, I can relax and have another early night, and start my proper lists etc tomorrow. Now that its become reality.
I am excited, and hesitant at the same time.
BF's reply so far was Jolly good.