Reader, I am in a quandary and am using this blog as a means to crystallise my thinking. Having begun to settle into my new role I find myself once more considering the option to move house. This dilemma has come about following an egg-lobbed-at-window incident.
Now, His Nibs believes this incident to be purely co-incidental but I'm not so sure. It may be that his one time collaring of one of the local neds continues to generate ill feeling among the Valley mafia but perhaps not. We may be the unlucky victims of a random act of juvenile eggery but again perhaps not. The prospect of endlessly having to sluice egg splat from glass is not appealing.[Egg is remarkably diligent in the mess making department.]I'm not a fan of housework at the best of times so extra is not a welcome direction.
Some time ago His Nibs and I toyed with the idea of buying a particularly attractive, roomy and clearly missile-free new house. It would mean a significantly increased monthly outlay and sending the retirement deadline into our dotage. We decided that, on balance, it made sense to stay put until the bonny boys had left home and we could downsize.
It seems however that the boys will be staying with us for another couple of decades. Sigh.
Plus, it transpires that the Twins Next Door are about to invade my workaday world. It's bad enough that they can be heard, through our shared wall, joyously leaping from wardrobes at 2 am or testing the echo factor of the close until the harling itself commits suicide.
I've cheerfully tossed balls, frisbees and shuttlecocks back over the fence but dread the day they acquire one of those mega trampolines and I see their wild eyed faces bobbing up and down while I try to hide under a judiciously tilted garden parasol.
It's only a matter of time. And when that happens it won't just be the harling lying limp in the close...
So, dear reader, do we sell our souls for a piece of domestic bliss or wait in an affordable home, subject to human shriek fiends and random poultry missiles?
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thought there would be a story about my epic mountaineering....
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