so let's be honest. things haven't been all sunshine and roses here. i've tried to talk about the good things on this here blog... but bad things exist too. even in lovelyland.
the low point: erika and myself driving to the bishop's house at 10:45 pm hoping to have a moment of his time to defend ourselves against some weird things he's been hearing from linda. of course he lives on an unpaved country road. of course it's dark and of course there's a ditch with a stream in it running alongside the road that we totally can't see. trying to turn around to get to the house that we thought we missed, erika reverses the back two tires into the ditch and we now only have one tire on solid ground. no amount of flooring the gas pedal gets us anywhere. and we laughed. because really, what else can you do when you hit the low point? it's only gotta go up from there, right?
as it appears to be turning out, it did go up from there. almost immediately. today, three days later, we are moving to a holiday cottage in holmsfirth, near huddersfield. west yorkshire. cobblestone street. gothic church just around the corner. our own bedrooms. florist just down the road. two 'good morning's' while we were looking at the outside. best of all, no cats. pretty amazing, eh? i guess i'm still used to the low point though. i'm more than halfway expecting to hear that the cottage has burned down or something.
here's some pictures of our new home: hooray.
the place. it's an old barn kind of place.
our street. 
erika. quite pleased with the blue door.
the low point: erika and myself driving to the bishop's house at 10:45 pm hoping to have a moment of his time to defend ourselves against some weird things he's been hearing from linda. of course he lives on an unpaved country road. of course it's dark and of course there's a ditch with a stream in it running alongside the road that we totally can't see. trying to turn around to get to the house that we thought we missed, erika reverses the back two tires into the ditch and we now only have one tire on solid ground. no amount of flooring the gas pedal gets us anywhere. and we laughed. because really, what else can you do when you hit the low point? it's only gotta go up from there, right?
as it appears to be turning out, it did go up from there. almost immediately. today, three days later, we are moving to a holiday cottage in holmsfirth, near huddersfield. west yorkshire. cobblestone street. gothic church just around the corner. our own bedrooms. florist just down the road. two 'good morning's' while we were looking at the outside. best of all, no cats. pretty amazing, eh? i guess i'm still used to the low point though. i'm more than halfway expecting to hear that the cottage has burned down or something.
here's some pictures of our new home: hooray.
the place. it's an old barn kind of place.
our street. 
erika. quite pleased with the blue door.i'll let you know if it catches on fire.
3 comments:
it looks (and sounds) lovely. i know someone, namely- my next door neighbor, who would be very pleased (and see it as a good omen) that you are living at #23.
i'm sorry that things didn't work out with linda. such a shame, but a florist down the road...? that sounds great.
it won't burn. you little pessimist. what are you, danish? (ann was telling us about a study that shows that danes are the happiest people in the world BECAUSE of their pessimism. i'm not sure i'm ready to buy that, but hey)
my goodness! well, i am glad things started going up so quickly; I can't tell you how glad I am that you get to move and I don't even know the half of it!
and your ditch story reminds me of some fantastic place and the big ditch near the end of the driveway that they tried to cover with some random piece of metal. i'm suprised that more people didn't get stuck in there... but as it is, only one tire on the road is much more dire and you guys did a good job of making the most of it. i love a good laugh!
Yahoo!
ps your blog has been very happy and even this last post that was supposed to be not upbeat ended up being a happy blog. :)
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