Hampshire calling!!!!

Boxes, boxes, boxes....

Boxes, boxes, boxes….

Dear Reader, I bet you thought I had vanished into the ether or had stumbled down a ditch!  Well it has certainly felt like it over the last week!  We left the Big Smoke a week ago now and to be honest, life could NOT be more different.  Everything is rather lovely here and Jerry, Primrose, Poppy and I keep having to pinch ourselves as it all seems too good to be true.  It is every bit the rural idyll we hoped it would be.  It was distinctly odd saying goodbye to the cottage but rather surprisingly I didn’t shed a tear (and I am well-known for being a tad gushy with the old water works).  Perhaps that was because the time was right for us to go?  The cottage seemed so small without all of our clutter and shutting the door, Jerry and I were more than happy to skip off into the sunset to try and retrieve the keys for our new countryside manor.

Boxes piled high in the ‘new’ cottage, Jerry and I spent our first night eating bread and cheese and drinking champagne from the girls’ plastic beakers.  Utterly exhausted but very happy indeed.  It wasn’t until Day 2 that I remembered what my lovely friend Bee had said to me about how I would feel in my first week.  Then the sudden realisation hit me that there was an EXTRAORDINARY amount of unpacking to do, that the puppy still needed to be walked, girls still needed to be fed and that I was amidst farmland with no phone, no internet and no mobile signal as BT had crossed our lines with a dear old lady in the village who was housebound and now unable to use her phone too!  Apparently the countryside has no need for that new fangled invention: the internet or indeed a phone line!  So I can tell you, dear Reader, that I have so far spent the week unpacking boxes, yelling at BT, organising where everything is going to go, yelling at BT, shouting at the computer and phone, more yelling at BT….I am sure you get the gist, dear Reader.  Margot without the internet it would seem spells mini breakdown.  This combined with Monty the dog shredding a 12 pack of loo rolls, eating one of Jerry’s shoes, making himself sick gobbling up a dead mouse found in the lane, the girls refusing to go to bed because they want to watch the sunset from their bedroom window , the fridge and washing machine being too large to fit in the utility room despite being the standard size and did I mention no internet ?!  To be honest, there is not enough gin in the world that could have mollified my black mood.

I am not sure that Minty would have approved of the plastic beakers...but needs must!

I am not sure that Minty would have approved of the plastic beakers…but needs must!

HOWEVER…..with every cloud comes a silver lining……..I can wholeheartedly say that never a truer word was said as we have been truly welcomed into the village with open arms.  Villagers have left cards and bunches of flowers, invitations to drinks and all have greeted with the warmest of smiles and firm handshakes.  The postman even ventured that he thought we would bring some much needed life to the village.  So we may not be totally unpacked, we may not have any telecommunications (I am posting this from the top of our nearest hill as hanging out of the bedroom window was deemed a bit too dangerous by Jerry) BUT we all LOVE it here and feel very very much at home.   Big Smoke – where’s that?!  Our adventures in the countryside have just begun…..!

Sweet peas left on the doorstep!

Sweet peas left on the doorstep!

25 thoughts on “Hampshire calling!!!!

  1. Mammasaurus

    Reeeeeeeeeeee-wind! You are moving to Hampshire? That’s only the place where the *ahem* coolest cats live you know… You’ll have to let me know where you’ll be!

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  2. Sally GG (@mummysallygg)

    Sounds like a stressful time but sprinkled with some magical moments – love the idea of your girls being too excited to sleep from wanting to see the sunset. And that your neighbours have been so welcoming! Hope the bad stuff gets sorted soon and all becomes as lovely as it should.

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    1. admin Post author

      Thank you so much for popping by Sally! Fingers crossed it will all resolve itself in the next couple of days!

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    1. admin Post author

      Thank you so much! We have waited a long time to finally move so we are sooo happy to be in the countryside now!

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  3. victoriananana

    Oh hurrah! So glad all (apart from BT and sleepless tots) going well! We’ve now sold our house had our offer accepted on a lovely Wiltshire house, so fingers crossed, we’ll beard soon too!

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  4. Lou's Lake Views (@LLoopyLou)

    Wishing you all the best with your new life and I hope it fulfills all your dreams. I hope the internet get sorted soon too, I’d be going insane by now as would the kids! Love the idea of you drinking bubbly out of plastic beakers, it could be worse, you could have been using straws! 😀

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    1. admin Post author

      That’s so true!! Plastic beakers were all we could find on the first night! Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

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  5. Verily Victoria Vocalises

    Oh lovely, I FEEL your pain, I really do. I, however, had major issues with Sky and BT stepped in to save the day! I hope you settle soon and wish you every happiness in your new home. Thank you for being this weeks newbie showcase 🙂 xx

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    1. admin Post author

      Fingers crossed Internet seems to be working again! Thank so much for having me as your newbie showcase this week. I hope everyone enjoyed the read! Xxx

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  6. Sarah Miles

    Huge congrats on finally getting there! Commiserations on the internet but how lovely to actually be welcomed by the village. You’ll be on the Parish Council next…

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