Week 292: Fourteen-Hour Days

It’s been an intense week, but mostly in a good way. Apart from Wednesday I’ve been working a full day remotely and then spending a further seven hours doing jobs around the house. We’ve achieved so much and the place feels a lot more like it’s ours already. The cleaning on Monday held up most other jobs, it was all pretty grim. We were surprised when the agency sent one person because it’s a lot of house. She worked super hard but it wasn’t quite the deep clean we were hoping for so we’ve been doing a lot of extra cleaning on top. Our mattress arrived on Tuesday. We have enough space for a Super King and it’s luxurious. For me it beat the first two nights where we had to sleep on the sofas. On Wednesday we had the day off work but it was still a super heavy-going day. We drove an hour and a half to Hull to meet Charlotte’s mum and granny and then met the movers to bring all of Charlotte’s granny’s spare furniture to Matlock. It’s a lot of really great antique stuff and several beds…