Another Small Move
Slowly...getting...there...
So we moved all the stuff from my sister's garage to the new house yesterday. You may recall an amusing blog post about the original move, and the hilarity that ensued when Sean (the bro-in-law) got his truck stuck up a small lane and needed a Garda escort in reverse? Well, I'm pleased to report that due to our new place being ridiculously convenient to the motorway, no such hi-jinks occured in yesterdays move.
We got out to Garristown (North County Dublin, middle-of-nowhere) at about 10am, mostly due to the new N2 dual carriageway taking about half an hour or more off the journey time, which was brilliant (so from taking an hour and a half to get to my Mam and Dad's or my sisters, it now takes 45 minutes!). We loaded up the truck, chasing away a few cats and spiders as we did so (amid screams of "SPIDER!!!" from Nikki), I had a go around their garden on Sean's Quad Bike which was loads of fun, we had some breakfast and tea, and headed up to my Mam and Dad's for a couple more things.
My Gran had given me two leather recliners and footstools after she moved out of her house, and they were in 'storage' in my Dad's shed for the past year or so. After loading them up, we lashed back to Shankill.Unloading was easy-peasy, and all the stuff stacked into one of the bedrooms as we're getting wood put down this week in the other two. We headed to Dalkey for a bit o' nosh, and ended up in the IN bar as there wasn't much else open. After lunch we parted ways, another stage in the moving process completed.
Today, the wood for the floors is being delivered, a skip is coming to take away the rubble from knocking down that wall, NTL are coming to hook up the broadband and TV, and I just got a call saying our lovely couch is ready. It's all go here!
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Mum?? Excuse me? Don't turn your back on you roots!! NIP Matt! Sorry I wasnt there to help you this time, I had the surprise of the year yesterday, was hanging out my clothes on the mine when I hear a bang bang on the door (baby) and it was STEFANE!! Can you believe it, over from London! So had to go and get locked! :)
Posted by: Babs | June 26, 2006 1:10 PM
I feel it is worth mentioning that the spiders were VERY LARGE AND DANGEROUS
Posted by: NKL | June 26, 2006 1:14 PM
MUM???
In our house it was always Mam... and still is.... NIP from me also.
Posted by: Rebecca | June 26, 2006 3:22 PM
Yeah exactly Bex, Matt must think that he is posh now that he lives on the south side!!haha!!
Posted by: Babs | June 26, 2006 3:35 PM
Ah for fuck sakes...
I was in a hurry ok? Mum is now Mam, happy now...?
(sisters... can't live with them... can't kill 'em...)
Posted by: Matt | June 26, 2006 3:54 PM
That's good, in a hurry is NO excuse man! West Brit, that's what you are!! :)
Posted by: Babs | June 26, 2006 4:25 PM
No it's not. Nikki's 'Mum' is English. I spend most of my waking hours (when I'm not working) with Nikki. We talk quite a bit. Blame her.
You're a southsider too now, you know. Livin' in feckin' Baller an' all, WHA? Roish.
Posted by: Matt | June 26, 2006 5:20 PM
Oi - less of the blame please.
I also say 'Does my bum look big in this?'. I dont hear you saying that...or do you?! :-)
Posted by: NKL | June 26, 2006 5:50 PM
My bum doesn't look big in anything.
And you don't say that! I don't think you've ever asked me that actually...
Posted by: Matt | June 26, 2006 6:06 PM
Sorry to interrupt the friendly banter but I seem to have missed the date for the official house-warming party...
Posted by: SharkyUK | June 26, 2006 8:01 PM
Most of my mates say "Mum" or "Mom" and "dorsh" some of them also say "wha'" and "I done...." and I wouldn't ever say anything like that, your Mammy is your Mam, your Mummy is your Mum, and I NEVER heard you or any of us call our wonderful Mam anything even resembling Mummy, s'there! :P
Posted by: Babs | June 26, 2006 9:18 PM
To get invite to housewarming it is obligatory to provide wonderful housewarming present (or a pair of shoes for me) in advance. On receipt of such present, invite will be issued. Honest.
Posted by: NKL | June 27, 2006 8:43 AM
:) A pair of shoes... ok, sounds like an essential item for any self-respecting household!
Posted by: SharkyUK | June 27, 2006 8:57 AM
Listen to the lady, she knows what she's saying. A pair of shoes for her and/or an Xbox or Gamecube game for me would be perfect housewarming pressies.
We're quite different, me and her, but it works, y'know? :-)
And Babs, I would never, never say 'Mummy'.
Posted by: Matt | June 27, 2006 9:36 AM
Exactly!!
Posted by: Babs | June 27, 2006 9:47 AM
Mam is a word the freaks me up. Some words do that. What the fucks wrong with mom?
Broadband in the new place eh? I'm not sure Nikki can handle that sort of change ...
Posted by: Adrian | July 2, 2006 2:43 PM
Back at you Sevitz, what the fucks wrong with Mam?
Broadband in the new place, yes. Sorted. Not because I need it, because I want it.
Posted by: Matt | July 3, 2006 11:27 AM
Certain words freak me out. It just does. Can't be helped.
Posted by: Adrian | July 3, 2006 11:50 AM