Exchange of house completed!!.

At long last all the paper work on house sale is done.

We hand keys to new owners in a week from now.

So the next week holds loads of things for us to get done.

Monday packing final belonging into hire van which my hubby will drive to Wales.

Tuesday hubby driving to Wales unloading belongings into storage and driving back to Sussex in the same day!

Evening we will sleep in our campervan on our driveway. As the house will be empty at this point.

Wednesday we will all leave Sussex for Wales in our car.

Where we will be staying on a farm for a time.

Thursday hubby will take the bus from Carmarthen back to Sussex many hours, arriving late evening.

He will sleep back at our home in Sussex in campervan on drive way.

Friday morning he will hand over keys to the new owners.

Friday afternoon /evening he will drive campervan to a nice little spot.

Have some sleep in small hours drive campervan back to farm in Wales.

Saturday.

Hopefully after a crazy hard working week mainly for poor hubby.

He will arrive safe and well to be with us at the farm.

At this point we’ve left Sussex sold home and move on. 😉😉👍.

My doodle inspired by a love of wild flowers. 💐

Favourite spots visited in the last weeks in Sussex.

After 40 something years in Sussex. I guess you get a few favourite spots that you like to visit.

I like to find natural beauty and places with serenity and calmness.

So here’s a few of my happy places in Sussex visited for the last time before the big move.

I just love southease Church.

I’ve been here many times.

Never have I met another person in the church mid week.

Therefore I’ve sat alone in peace

The sunlight pouring through stain glass window scattering beams of light across the floor in front of me. Where dust and pollen dance in the streams of light.The air with a smell of wood, from the church pews and high wooden beams.

You can image all the other s in history who have sat here like myself.

So many over time have visited the lovely church.

I really appreciate this place.

My quiet place 😊

Monk house Rodmell.

This was the house of Virginia woolf and Leonard Woolf.

Virginia Woolf was a writer and her husband a political activist, journalist and editor. While they lived in this house they had visits from the Bloomsbury group, T. S Eliot, EM Forster, Roger Fry and Lutton Strachey.

I love this cute little weatherboard front and slate roofed house.

With beautiful garden apple orchard and vegetable plot.

Plus the lovely walnut tree which my son really likes.

I would happily live here!!!

The walnut tree 😊

Some time in Sussex.

A few weeks left still to be part of the local home education community, but to also say goodbye to some truly wonderful friends which I’ve made over time. You have(( All )) been good to me !! and will be missed for sure but I do hope we all stay in touch.

Had to post the cake.

Gemma xx.

Fruitcake will be cut on the special occasion of us finding a new abode.

Luckily she kindly fed it with

brandy so will keep for the length of the adventures.

Storms with amber flood warnings.

Well no water on board and only bottled water for washing ,drinking and toilet flushing is cope able but not the greatest.

No more properties to view .

Now a warning of storms and floods over wales .

The van has found it a little hard going on the wet slippy hillsides .

A final walk for now ! but we will be back soon for sure.

A last enjoyable walk looking at the Autumn leaves in Wales.

Think its time to return to Sussex and wait for the final days of the house sales stuff to be done.

Then the new life and adventures will really start.

House viewings, proving few and far between .

(Roadside evening biscuit making trying out the old oven).

Some time on still no more properties to view. Hubbys not sleeping at night. He goes in fits and starts with this. It becomes a problem when he doesn’t sleep well for a few days and we are all living in a small area, tensions rise. On top of that, some negative events have taken place which affected us this week. We plod on keeping chins up. We decide on giving biscuit making ago with the old oven that evening. Proves hard because the temperature of the oven is really really temperamental. Burning biscuits on the sides but undercooked in the middles. The biscuits are by no way perfect but still enjoyed for sure.