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Tuesday 2nd October - New Chapter Starting

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Posted by: knightrider45 Tuesday 2nd October 2007, 8:05am

Well, Simon (Eddy2socks) was right about last Sunday – thanks for that reply Si – it was a good family day.

We had good weather for a change, unusual for a Sunday when I'm off, and I started pulling the fence down, on the wife's instructions about 9.30, Son and his friend came around at half ten, and, finally, Middle Daughter and her partner came around about 12.00 mid day.

So whilst we men were kept busy on the fencing, the Wife cooked for us all (although Son and his friend had departed for the local pub at half twelve. Everyone had a mission, and everyone got on with it. Brilliant.

Not exactly cave person tradition, but the mans work was being done as the Wife did the wifey and motherly type things.

And now, onto today. The consultant is coming out to see us at 2pm this afternoon, when I and the wife sign our lives away on the dotted line. The new mortgage has gone through.

That means we can, at last, get two cars back on the road again, and Christmas won't be so much a problem this year. We're hoping to start the dreaded Christmas Shopping next week - ish, depending on when I'm off.

I'm planning the garden layout and will be ordering turf and gravel to get rid of all the grass we have inherited with the house. The new lawn will be really small this time around, and the rest of it where it is now will be dug up and skipped, and laid to gravel. No more 5 hour Sunday afternoons cutting the grass for me. Hooray.

I'm still working on the web site in between everything. On just checking my eBay stuff, I can see I've had 5 bids across the whole 80 or so items I've put up for sale - and I've still got more stuff to go up yet. I'm registering the business with eBay and cross pollinating both sites with each other.

I'm working flat out at the moment, both at "work" and on the web sites. If my list of goals proves to be as effective as the "experts" say it will be, then I've got 364 days left to turn the business around so I can leave my job. Looking at my rota at work, I'm off the last weekend of this month - so that will be the first car boot in Norfolk.

I'm not looking forward to the early starts, cold weather, and humping heavy stuff around from car to stall and back again - but hey - if that's what I have to do to get the dream going, then so be it. And of course........there's always the money as well.

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