Moving On - The New Plans

Yay - it's all official ... although no money has yet changed hands.  But I have just checked and my new place is all mine.  And as I said, as soon as I knew I would tell you here I am telling and showing you.  My new home from next week, is the bottom left of these four flats, the front door to the left of centre and the two windows to the left of it.

I decided that rather be in the uncertain position of perhaps not being able to stay in the Caravan Park over Winter, due to maybe more changes in the Covid rules and regulations I would find myself a new and more permanent base to live and eventually house hunt from.  

To tell the truth I am also getting very fed up with the rules and regulations that living in a caravan park during these Coronavirus times brings.  It was bad enough in normal times, but just recently we have been getting emails and instructions on a weekly basis ... as you can image this does not suit me at all!!  The thought of my own property in the heart of the town I love, with only the normal looking after someone else's house rules was so much more preferable.

All the letting agents checks have been done and I get the keys on 16th October, then I can go about making it mine ... and Suky's ... for at least the next year.

I've not moved far, in fact I am still on the same river just much further along, so our morning walks will still be riverside ones, but we will be in the town and with shops, restaurants and amenities right on our doorstep instead of a ten minute drive away.

One thing that is very different is my 'garden'.  I've gone from almost five acres in Wales to the tiny Van garden and now as you can see from the arrow I have a little window basket thingy-me-bob.  I think my little tin bath will have to move with me ... and perhaps my bench.

One thing that has gotten bigger is my floor space.  The Van has a grand total of 432sq ft and my new flat is approximately 603sq ft according to the letting agents details.

Once I have the keys I will get some more photos of the rooms for you all to have a look at, but in the meantime I am busy Ziffit-ing all my unwanted books and DVDs in an attempt to stay cost neutral with the things I have to buy to set up this new life for myself.  The first of which are a little under-counter fridge-freezer and a washing machine.

I will be continuing to live extremely simply, indeed perhaps even more so, bringing minimal things from the house in Wales so that it still 'shows' well to prospective buyers and making do with mostly things that I can pick up second-hand.  I have decided that while I am officially working I will save as much money as I can and in effect put myself on an 'on-going Challenge' with my food budget.

It's a change that I have been looking forward to for a while, and I hope that you will come along with me for the new adventure, it's almost going to be My New Life in a Town.

I feel I have come full circle!! 

Sue xx