Rallying the troops!

Someone had mentioned to us in conversation recently that a local car sales place also did van hire, so I rang them. Yes they did, did we want a little van or a big van? Big please, we're moving house.

So it's booked, a large van from Friday morning until Monday morning - at least we have a van.

Now, we need some muscle - time to phone all those friends who told us, when we said we were moving, 'anything you need help with, just let us know!'

So we did.' Are you free on Friday? Can you help us move some stuff?'

We're going to need a lot of muscle to move the American Fridge/Freezer and the large settee, other stuff is fairly manageable. Now the main problem in retiring to Spain is that the majority of other people here are also retirees, albeit early retirees. Many have creaking joints like us - our circle of friends does not run to an army of Schwartzeneger-type men,(more's the pity), so we need to be careful not to overload them.

But, we have willing volunteers and hope to move the large furniture on Friday so that Neil and I can do the rest over the weekend.

So, crisis number 2 averted - surely nothing else can go wrong?

And we just found out that, as Monday is a holiday here, we get to keep the van until Tuesday morning at no extra cost - so, we have an extra day to move.