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The plot thickens

July 20, 2010 by Helena Halme 4 Comments

On Sunday as we were preparing to spend the last night of our mini break in the Babington Bubble, as Daughter called it, we had an email, copied to us by the people now living in our new abode in NW3. Through the correspondence going back and forth between several people we gathered there was a problem with our moving-in date. The present occupiers weren’t moving out until the evening of the day we were due to move in. Then on Monday morning we had an email from our agents in London with a title, ‘PLEASE TELEPHONE ME’. In capitals, at seven am. Husband was on his way to Heathrow, where Daughter was to board a plane to Stockholm later that morning.

OK, I thought, rapidly losing the relaxed state that the Babington Bubble had induced me into, we’ll just ask the removal company to move us in a day later. We’ll find somewhere to stay for another night. Not such a big problem. You’d think not.

‘The next available date is 28th July.’

Now, it seemed the removals company had taken umbradge with the fact that Husband had made a small comment about the events on the day we moved away from our home of 15 years. I won’t go into it, but you can read all about it below. Instead of trying to make an unhappy customer happy, they were trying everything in their power to make us angry. Or then the stroppy woman was just enjoying the power she suddenly had over our misfortune.Or as Husband  put it in his unmistakable Jack Speak, ‘She’s got me over a barrel and is now unscrewing the top of the KY Jelly’

I’m now sitting in a vast bed in a sleepy Devon manor house hotel, a stay we’d planned at the end of our time between houses. We’re here to visit friends, look at gravestones (yes, really, we know how to have fun) and then make our way via Wiltshire to London. But now I have no idea where we are going next. And it’s raining. And as Husband again so succinctly put it, ‘If I sleep another night here I may wake up in another century.’

The dog is also very confused.

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Comments

  1. Looking Fab in your forties says

    July 20, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Oh fuck, I don't quite understand, so are you saying that the 28th of July is the only date the removal company can move you? If so move in anyway, buy a cheap mattress and sleep on the floor and eat out till you get your stuff!

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  2. Wildernesschic says

    July 20, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    I am with Fab here .. you at least will be in London. You can eat out and be romantic .. sorry trying to put a nice slant on it.. you should expose the company when moved in safe :0 xxxx
    Thinking of you

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  3. JulieB says

    July 21, 2010 at 9:38 am

    That really stinks!
    I do often wonder whether there isn't an easier way to do these things than these long, convoluted chains that rely on everything going exactly to the minutest plan, but I have yet to come up with it.
    Hope it all works out for you. I agree with the other comments – think of it as a romantic camping trips!

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  4. Helena Halme says

    July 21, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    We have now resigned ourselves to one night 'slumming it' in new flat on borrowed mattress & bedding and staying put in Wilts until then. I cannot wait until Saturday when we will be reunited with our worldly goods! Never thought I was so materialistic…

    Thanks for all your support, it's really appreciated xx

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