Biting the Bullet

((HUGS))

Merlot

So......a month of communal living has passed without too many hiccups.

Blocked drains were soon sorted and DGS3 nagged to keep his phone charged in case he gets stranded at the bus stop again!!! A two mile walk on a hot day along a busy main road can't have been much fun but then if his mum expects me to anticipate when transport may be required she has to realise that retired brains don't always think like that.....TELL ME!!

It's DGS3's 14th birthday today so he's taking advantage of having his own field/football pitch/campsite. Parents have been reassured that if the heavens open, thunder and lightning terrifies them or tents collapse etc., they will be rescued and can spend the night on various floors. We haven't specified whose. Not ours.....that's for sure.

I have volunteered to do breakfast tomorrow. DD said not to bother but the farmers wife in me can't bear the thought of sending them off without a bacon butty inside them.

DGS3 opened his birthday present from us (Goal posts) and said WOW!! I love you soooooo much.

I think we're going to be alright

It looks as if I can get it on catch-up.

Nooo! I wish I had seen that it was on! DS has always been fascinated by living in small spaces, when he was little he wanted to move into one of those IKEA mock-ups, if he disappeared we always knew where we would find him.

Glamping is all the rage, merlot.Hope all goes smoothly for you and your family.

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I love this website. I'm very inspired to start a 'glampsite' on our field now it has been grassed. DH just rolled his eyes when I suggested it but doesn't it look great?

Those caravans are available on e-bay.

Have you watched any of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, janer?
He's doing caravans at the moment, at the bottom of people's gardens.

Good luck merlot!

I think it all sounds lovely. There's a piece of land for sale at the bottom of the garden. I would love to be able to afford to buy it and put a caravan on it for DD and her family to stay in for their holidays.

Merlot I think you are an absolute star. Good luck with everything, and keep us posted.

Good luck indeed - although I am sure that you will not need it. Time to put your feet up.

it will all be fine merlot

There will never be a dull moment Merlot. All the best. , a bunch each for the new abodes and some

It sounds very exciting, merlot and I wish you lots of luck and a very enjoyable takeaway to start it all off!

It will be fine Merlot

Today was moving in day for DD and the boys and thankfully the rain has held off.

The plumber arrived at 8.30 to connect the water to the mobile home and make sure all the drainage into the cess pit was tickety-boo. Sixteen year old DGS who has been a little quiet about the whole moving thing pronounced the shower, EXCELLENT! and has disappeared to a school leaving do and a sleepover with friends.....That's one satisfied customer!!

Poor DH is exhausted as he's been doing all the groundwork, connecting electricity and gas and building bed extensions for the boys so they can have their 3' mattresses instead of 'kiddy' bunk beds.....He's a STAR!!

I've just collapsed with a cuppa and the dogs have come to remind me they haven't been fed yet.

Earlier, I remarked to DH that it will be nice to get back to normal and then we both realised that 'normal' is going to be different from now on

A takeaway is called for tonight as we're all bushed. Communal living starts tomorrow.....Wish me luck!!

Give them the paintbrush! Once when we moved, my daughter ended up with a Liverpool bedroom complete with border of footballs. She had a few friends to stay and they all painted it. Purple, turquoise, and silver woodwork... But she was happy.

Merlot I can just imagine them

I've put some pics on the DD's temporary home thread. Plain sailing would be nice, jane but you should have seen the DGSs faces when they spotted the pink bedrooms.

Good job I'm handy with a paintbrush.

I am looking forward to a large tonight.

What a day and thanks for telling us how it went

Thanks for the update Merlot. Obviously plain sailing from now on

I have been reading your posts with great interest, its a wonderful plan, even though there's a lot of hard work ahead of you.
. Just getting a low loader backed into, where you want it to go is no easy task.

Update:

Oh boy, what a morning. The static caravan (mobile home if you're posh) arrived at 9.30. Four burly men arrived with it - much to my relief as my caravan shoving days are well and truly over (not that they ever began.) Backing the low-loader into position went well and the caravan was unloaded safely but then the lorry got stuck due to heavy rain earlier this week. Don't ask me how I managed to tow it out with my 4x4 but the Gods were with me!

DGS then decided to throw a teenage strop because nobody was available to drive him into town to meet his mates. His younger brother, helpful as ever, handed round coffee and biscuits while DH grumbled that if the lorry driver had listened to him he wouldn't have got stuck in the first place

Our four Polish friends (Yes, UKIP) finally drove off with big smiles on their faces which could probably be explained by the big tip (from me) and four half bottles of Vodka (from clever DD). If you want a good job done, women resort to flattery bribery.

The family moves into the caravan in a fortnight and from then on I think my motto will be, Keep Calm and Bake Cake!

I'm just really glad that all the plants I've grown to plant up a new border are still in pots. I would have had to dig the whole lot up again to avoid them being flattened by a reversing lorry.

I wish we could do that! What a lovely project.