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Pith & Wind - Moving
When I told people I was moving house, nearly
everybody said that in their experience moving was one of the three
or four major events in their lives, and the longer between moves,
the more major it was likely to become. After twenty five or so
years in the one place, I guess this move qualifies as one of the
more extreme events in my life, and in some ways that seems to be
the case, but in most respects it’s simply been an exercise
in logistics, i.e. getting endless amounts of crap from
one place to the next without spending too much money and without
bothering too many of my friends and relations along the way.
When you’re a renter, the timing of such events is rarely
in your control, but I certainly exercised my prerogative to procrastinate
over a number of years, electing to put up with the various discomforts
associated with a house in morbid decline, rather than take the
logical option to decamp to another location. A minority of people
I canvassed supported this option while others declined to offer
an opinion whilst looking at me strangely, which I took as disapproval.
As it happens though, had I gone earlier a couple of options wouldn’t
have been available to me, one being the splendid house that I’ve
happily landed in, the other being the availability of bro’
Dick to lend me a helping hand over several days, both pretty crucial
elements, which, to my mind at least, counter-balance the years
I endured living in sub-standard accommodation.
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