Effecting The Transition

[poliphilo]

Sam's original idea was to buy the house so she could rent it to her sister. Now she and her sister are buying it together and planning to rent it outside the family. Sam says she'll paint everything cream and have the hall floor professionally polished.

We've gone out to lunch every day this week. We eat in supermarket cafes. Ailz thinks Morrison's offers the best value- and the pensioners of Failsworth seem to agree.

In the evening I eat bread and soup. Last night I settled into my comfy chair, rested my computer on my knees and watched a recent episode of Poirot.

Everywhere there are plastic bags. They contain books, CDs, DVDs, clothes, soft toys, miscellaneous junk. I wonder how many we'll be able to fit in the car.

Ailz's mother is coming to accept the situation. She works herself up towards one of her routines of self-pity and then realizes what she's doing and stops short.

There are two things we can do about the large items of furniture. The first is get some huckster to cart them away. The second- which is the one we've come to favour- is hire a van and take them down to Kent. Matthew has agreed on principle to be our van driver and removals man.

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

We treat Morrison's in Boroughbridge as a sarvice station on the A1: quick service, good value, petrol and food (much) cheaper than actual motorway service stations...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We do our best to avoid motorway services. Our usual ploy is to come off the motorway and go into the nearest town to eat- and maybe do a little tourism on the side.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

We do our best to avoid motorway services

So do we - who wouldn't? And if we have time, then, as you say, the lunch break can be a chance to look round somewhere unfamiliar. Sometimes we're in a hurry, though. Supermarket cafés offer all that service stations do, and are usually pleasanter and better value.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's a big Asda on a trading estate in Solihull, just south of Birmingham. We've stopped there for lunch a couple of times.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

You may well like to have some of your own furniture in the future when you leave your mother's house. It's comforting stuff sometimes.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not only comforting but comfortable. My mother's armchairs are hard and unforgiving and I'd quite like to replace at least one of them with one of our Ikea rockers.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

It's true, supermarkets can be a good option. I find it rather sad, as I love to cook, and that's always been the case with my family. But, Dad's gone now, and Mum's sadly on her own these days, having been formerly used to taking care of a family. (Long, not very happy tale that'd enthrall an investigative reporter, were they not an extinct species)

Who more enjoys cooking amongst you two? Seems like you both rather enjoy getting down and dirty in the kitchen. So to speak. ^_^