Moving In.

We were so busy sorting out the cars that we were almost too late for our appointment to get the keys for the house. When we arrived, 15 minutes late, having telephoned the office to ask them to let the guy know we were on our way, we were met by a very unhappy chap. He was busy checking the house, making notes of it's condition, taking photos of areas that were a problem, so it's not as if he'd been hanging about waiting for us but he was determined to be grumpy with us.

Finally, having agreed meter readings with him, he left and we looked around our new home. The pups quickly inspected every room and ran outside. It took Neil and I a little longer to go through all the rooms talking about what furniture would go where, when our furniture eventually arrives.

And then my mobile rang.

It was the removal guys.

Now remember, this was Tuesday. They weren't supposed to be leaving Southern France until Wednesday so I was a little surprised to get a call from them.

The call went something like this:

We're just leaving London heading north and should be in Sheffield by 6ish. Are you able to take delivery of your furniture tonight?

What? When? How.....? Doesn't matter. Yes, yes, yes.

It turns out that the pick-up in France had cancelled so they had been able to travel through the last few days and rather than take the furniture to the depot to be unloaded, only to be re-loaded onto another van another day, they wanted to bring it straight to us.

By 9pm we had all our furniture in the house, the hot tub was in the garage along with 3 wardrobes that wouldn't go up the stairs and the guys had parked their van on our drive for the night. We had a final night in the hotel and early the following morning we would be able to start unpacking.

It could not have worked out better if we'd used a bespoke removal company.

It meant we would have chairs to sit on and a bed to sleep in as well as all our clothes again, not that we had any wardrobes to put them in unless we wanted a trip into the garage every morning.

The overall removal experience had taken less than 4 weeks and looking back I have no idea how we planned it, organised it and then did it in such a short time.

Amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to it!