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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Oct 24, 2013 15:43:51 GMT
A bitter-sweet afternoon in the afternoon with assistance from a parishioner filming the Last Tram to Domburg. There will be a few more trams down the line before demolition begins early next week but I wanted to film a whole journey in a systematic way; a friend put his camera on the back of a wagon to film a view from the train-type video some time ago. It will be good to have a record of something that has been a source of very great pleasure over the years ... just wait till the new line is built in the next garden!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Oct 25, 2013 9:30:03 GMT
The video has come out well but I will need another sunny day to take a few more little shots. The urgency was to film in the area of the apple tree that needs to be felled, that is happening on Saturday: I was going to leave it but the new house has a wood burning stove so it seems sensible to combine the two pieces of data.
Today is going to have to be a serious writing day: I need to get about six hours work in if I possibly can.
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Post by Mari on Nov 11, 2013 22:22:48 GMT
That's a lot of writing.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 13, 2013 12:56:32 GMT
Yes it was, but I am hitting my targets: two chapters drafted in six weeks and all the archival research completed. My supervisory panel are content that I should aim to finish by this time next year (four years instead of five) so I am very pleased with how things are going. I am being really focused - which is not always good for me - but managing to do a few other things as well, like packing. It is only now that everything is going into boxes that I have realised how much is in the house that could very well be got rid of. I am taking a whole lot of theology books to the cathedral library tomorrow as donations, lots of others have gone into charity collections; lots of things have gone to the local children's hospice charity shop, I go along at different times so that the various volunteers don't realise that I am filling their shop with my household ...
I actually said mass today for the first time in nine weeks (yes, I did remember what to do) it was for a nearby parish where the priest has had to retire on health grounds and I was the only person they could find. I am trying not to accept such invitations because the agreement with Bp. Mhint is that I concentrate on research, not dabbling in other people's ministry. Still it was nice for a change: I am worshipping at the cathedral at the moment because that is a neutral place and if I went anywhere else they would start trying to lure me onto their rotaaaa ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 13, 2013 17:35:22 GMT
I am taking a whole lot of theology books to the cathedral library tomorrow as donations, lots of others have gone into charity collections; lots of things have gone to the local children's hospice charity shop, I go along at different times so that the various volunteers don't realise that I am filling their shop with my household ... That's very dodgy behaviour! An alternative would be to go in and "*shoplower" stuff! ...I was the only person they could find. What you mean is "I was the first and only person they spoke to for the position. They could find no-one better!" (*Opposite of shoplift)
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 14, 2013 21:05:13 GMT
Oh dear no, old chap: they know me too well!!
It was the Commemoration of Charles Simeon. Go on ask, I dare you ...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 16, 2013 10:06:37 GMT
I note that no-one dared ask ...
... never mind, I think though I cannot yet be totally certain that I have a moving date: after a wobble at the top of the chain all is back in synch again and removal vans will be hurling around in a Gloriously Mordorian way on December 2nd., at least that takes the pressure off me on the packing front.
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Post by Mari on Nov 17, 2013 9:33:00 GMT
Oh, that's nice to finally have some clarity. Good luck with packing
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 17, 2013 23:05:06 GMT
Very much so: I started on my study today. Strangely, humour and liturgy went into the same box ...
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Post by Mari on Nov 23, 2013 11:38:21 GMT
Hehe. I may have unpacked my last box, but now the mess is still on the floor, waiting to be sorted. I just seem to have better things to do all the time. Like reading a book. Or grading book reports. Or watching a tv series on my computer. It actually annoys me to no end that I can't seem to get it done. I just really need a holiday to do so.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 23, 2013 12:28:18 GMT
It is difficult to know what to do isn't it? I was quite aware as I packed that there were items that I really no longer want or need and might well be unpacked only to go straight to a charity shop or into the recycling.
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Post by Kye on Nov 23, 2013 14:10:43 GMT
Everything in my new place was unpacked within 2 days of my move. I'm maniacal about that. (But I do still have 2 pictures to put up. They're quite heavy and I don't know where the studs are in my walls.)
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Post by JoeP on Nov 23, 2013 15:33:13 GMT
2 days! I would never manage that ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 23, 2013 16:01:54 GMT
I could have unpacked in 2 days, but there would then just be a big pile of stuff instead!
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Post by Kye on Nov 23, 2013 16:22:15 GMT
I had Thanksgiving supper at my place 5 days after I moved in and everyone said it looked like I had been there for months.
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Post by Mari on Nov 24, 2013 12:34:12 GMT
I managed that in my previous place as well, but here I have a lot more stuff to unpack, plus a lot of things still need doing, like wallpapering and painting in some rooms. There is no point putting stuff there now. So it's sitting in my bedroom or some place instead.
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Post by Kye on Nov 24, 2013 17:10:56 GMT
I understand, but that would drive me crazy!
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 24, 2013 17:44:02 GMT
I currently have two rooms I almost never go in with random bits in. I am gradually sorting and packing stuff into them for the big push. When I go in there, it's like someone has added a room to my house as they feel very unfamiliar.
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Post by Mari on Nov 24, 2013 18:29:05 GMT
I understand, but that would drive me crazy! I had to get over that, because it simply can't be helped right now.
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Post by Mari on Nov 24, 2013 18:29:43 GMT
Ironically once you get over it, it gets harder and harder to care about other things you can remedy now
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 24, 2013 23:39:22 GMT
The attics and upper floor are done: all in neatly labelled boxes and ready to go - downstairs a different story and I still haven't demolished quite all the garden tramway ... in fact was filming part of it this afternoon for relaxation ... need to get on really though. Eight nights to go.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2013 12:57:41 GMT
Everything in my new place was unpacked within 2 days of my move. I'm maniacal about that. (But I do still have 2 pictures to put up. They're quite heavy and I don't know where the studs are in my walls.) We were really good about unpacking things quickly this year, but it still took us almost a month (including the ten days we couldn't do anything because we were at my sister's wedding in southern Germany). Mostly, because it was complicated, like a puzzle.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 25, 2013 17:01:38 GMT
Complicated? You aren't wrong!!
Last two dozen boxes to go and content disappearing nicely ... seven nights to go ...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 28, 2014 14:39:33 GMT
This is my first post from the new presbytery ... it has all been a little bit frantic one way and another. The move was eventually accomplished on December 2nd but there was some serious work to do from the outset. First job was to put a new roof on the potting shed: I am blessed with a much bigger garden, three sheds and a garage. One of the sheds is nicely fitted out to be a workshop so my bench and tools have all gone up there (heated, power, concrete floor) one is for potting and there is a third small one at the far end of the garden where I have put suitable things for when tiny members of the vast Ugluk-Smyth clan come to visit, as they surely will now that I am in the great and holy city of Baradurbury. The house is just up from a level-crossing belonging to the Glorious South of Mordor Rly., so I can do train spotting without leaving home. The Cathedral and University are only a short walk away and there are numerous shops close at hand including a supermarket that is almost up to Albert Heijn standards.
My Christmas holiday was to rewire the first floor electrical lighting and my new year holiday was to lay a floor in the vast attic - into which the content of so very many boxes has now disappeared. Fr. Zebulun, the well known priest-architect, has paid a visit and is preparing plans for a kitchen extension. The electrician is booked in for next month to rewire the unsatisfactory power distribution system (I know my limitations) which has been partly updated in a confusing and vaguely random fashion. Best of all the skilled artisans arrived yesterday to set up the new built-in wardrobes in the main bedroom. It will cost rather a lot of Schulls but looks terrific.
The house is mostly as built in the 1930s with traces of Art Deco about it: as far as possible these will be enhanced and restored and the nasty things done to the building in the 70s and 80s eradicated. The rooms that have been restored are very nice indeed ... it's the others. Emergency redecoration has been achieved in the dining room and one bedroom, more doubtless will follow.
And the first track has been laid for the new garden tramway ...
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Post by Kye on Jan 28, 2014 14:42:39 GMT
That sounds lovely, but also like a lot of work! I'm glad my latest move was downsizing.
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Post by JoeP on Jan 28, 2014 15:44:02 GMT
I like the fact that you open with details of the sheds
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 28, 2014 23:24:52 GMT
I like to imagine heaven as a decent shed ...
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Post by tangent on Jan 29, 2014 6:55:54 GMT
The house sounds great, WG.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jan 30, 2014 12:09:20 GMT
Eh? WG?
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2014 13:49:02 GMT
Maybe it was just a comment to WG!
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