I’ve changed location (again) since I last blogged… Bye Bye Cambridge, Hello Northampton. I’m now staying at a friends house where it’s lovely and quiet during the day so I can really buckle down to work.

No flat news to tell you really, the place Danny was going to see on Saturday cancelled at the last minute. But he should have some updates for me tonight - He has a list of places to ring to make appointments for viewing!

I’ve made friends with the next door neighbours cat… But I want to take it to the vet. It’s missing some fur on it’s face and drools a lot so I’d be thinking there’s something wrong with a tooth and something causing the patchy fur. But it’s not my place is it… not my cat… so all I can do is offer love and attention.

I think that’s it for the moment… Back to work I go!

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Good news, flat news and a rant…

Scott is back home! After going missing for 8 days he decided he’d better return home for Fathers Day! My Dad rang to say he was home safely and I spoke to him… the cat that is… to say don’t scare us like that again. Extremely glad he’s home - I was blaming myself and feeling very sad.

The flat… Danny went to see it and said it was in a rough area and he wasn’t like… omg omg we have to live there. So Friday night we’d more or less decided No it’s not the one. Then over the weekend I emailed tons more and the only one that sounded suitable also sounded slightly… Nigerian scammish… (the owner is in Italy… hard for him to get back to the UK…. please forward the money… lol umm no) and it’s also in a worse area than the first property. Soooo right now we’re back to square one with the flat Danny boy went to view back at the top of the list. We’ll see what develops this week!

The bank (lloyds tsb) are still messing about with my business account. It should take 5 days to get it all open and up and running. Well on Thursday I will have been waiting for a month. It would seem the man I went to see didn’t know what he was doing when he was filling in the forms (or wasn’t concentrating as he was very chatty) because I had a letter on Saturday saying please could I sign something because they did it wrong the first time. And also could I take in proof of address because they forgot to get that off of me the first time. It’s taken them 3 weeks to work this out. Not Impressed.

So there you go… Will be pleased once everything is sorted since right now I’m kind of in no mans land… and am getting bored of waiting!

Some exciting news and some worrying news…

Let’s get the worrying one over and done with first… Scott (the lil white cat) has been missing since Friday. And I’m not there to go find him My Dad is worried sick as are the other cats, Van didn’t go out all day yesterday which is unheard of. Apparently they are all off there food…. See, these cats they don’t worry about everyone back at home do they?

So Scott (as if he’s reading my blog lol!) please please please go home cos everyone misses you and I want to see you back on webcam tonight.

I did practise my pendulum dowsing on him and he’s very much alive so that’s excellent. After asking a series of yes/no questions starting with “is he alive - yes” and is he in the village - yes I narrowed it down to him being at one of the holiday villas at the end where my Dad lives. But Dad said he went to look and Scotty wasn’t there. So I dunno… I guess he’s off having an adventure with a pretty girl cat and is possibly being fed round her house aswell.

Ok now onto the exciting bit of news. Danny is going to view a flat on Friday!! :) It’s in Swindon (ugghhh) but we’ve decided we’re looking for somewhere adequate rather than perfect and being in Swindon surely won’t kill us for 6 months? (The pretty cottage in the country with barns and chickens can wait a few years).

I need to write out some questions for him to ask the landlord such as… Can we redecorate the disgusting looking kitchen and can I work from home there. (Yes, really in that order!) Then if it passes the Danny test I’ll go and have a look as well. Please keep fingers and toes crossed that we can live there and that it’s more than adequate lol.

Well all of my carefully laid out, organised for 3 months, plans went totally out of the window after I wrote my last post.

Danny got called into work (they bribed him with extra money and a promotion) so our two week house-sitting vacation has turned into me being here alone.

He did come up for the weekend but well… it’s hardly what was planned. However, after 1 whole day of crying and begging him to tell them where to go I calmed down, got on with it and it’s been ok.

On Saturday my friends met my other friends and my boyfriend… and all got on well together which was great. There’s a photo of everyone on my 365 day photo challenge blog if you want to take a peek.

I’ve been getting back into the work routine also - Helium writing, photo editing/submitting and Zazzling!

No news on the Wiltshire front as yet… Still early days though!

Hello! I am here Shall I tell you all about it?

The flight was slightly stressful, well not the flight but the airport. At Heraklion there was a huge long queue to get through security due to cruise ship passengers…. tooooo many passengers, not enough Greeks to cope with checking all our bags!

I was halfway down the queue when my flight was called. I was like omg omg omg… we waited a bit but then they called it again and said it was the last call. So I’m stood there going to my Dad “Doooo something I’m gonna miss the flight” so I queue jumped. Got through security to find an empty gate apart from the “ticket checker”. Got on the plane to find it was half empty… There must have been a lot of people who were actually behind me in that queue… and they didn’t panic and queue jump!!

Anyway I am here in Cambridge and the weather is nice!!! No rain… no big jumpers… it’s amazing! I do have a sore throat and feel a little bit grotty but I’m putting that down to bugs floating around on the plane.

Danny arrived Friday night although he has popped back home for 24hrs (best not to ask!). We’re like an old married couple… We don’t act like we haven’t seen each other in 10 months!

I’ve already hit the charity shops and a carboot sale (garage sale)

Tomorrow I need to get back into some kind of work routine… A Helium writing session is needed as well as a Zazzle catchup and photo editing. Hmm we’ll see how that goes!

More soooon

This might well be my last post from Greece for a while…

5 sleeps until I fly…. 6 sleeps until I’m reunited with Danny.  We only have two weeks together before he has to go home to “Dannyland” (Wiltshire) while I stay in Cambridge until we get somewhere to live together… But at least we’ll be in the same country during that time!!

I’m 98% packed. The worrying thing is the scales are only registering 11kg when I put my case on and I’m wondering if they are broken. My baggage allowance is 15kg this time because I refused to pay £10.00 for an extra 5kg… But anyway I don’t think the Greeks will bother much if my scales are indeed broken and I end up going in with more stuff than I’m technically allowed, they don’t usually.

I’ve been doing major cleaning and gardening, trying to get everything shipshape and tidy for my Dad before I go. This physical work means I’m totally knackered by the end of the day and am going to bed at 11pm compared with my usual 1am and have also had a siesta or two in the afternoons!!

I need to sort out boxes soon that I want sending over with my “random stuff” that I can’t fit in - Mostly baking equipment and books. Possibly more jumpers… Once we get moved in I’ll work out what needs to be added/removed from my parcel/s! Then everything else will get gradually picked up as and when I’m back for visits.

Pretty much just waiting for the days / hours to tick by now…

Well, two weeks today I’ll be in England hopefully awaiting the arrival of Danny.  We can’t decide if he should drive up Friday night or Saturday morning… I guess we’ll work that out nearer the time when I’ve given him maps and directions and instructions on not to get lost.

Scary how the time has flown by… Goodness knows what happened to the 2 months countdown!!

I’ve started packing. I always pack and repack 100 times until I get it right! At the moment I can’t decide how many fleecy jumpers to take… I keep thinking well it won’t be THAT cold but… it probably will be!! Especially compared with Greek weather.

No more cat news… Stella hasn’t been seen since that night in the week so I guess she just wanted to check we still lived here. Won’t be much good her coming round in two weeks wanting a kitten babysitter though!

I’m sure there was something else I was going to say but I can’t remember what it was now… Oh well! *Hits Publish*