Nearly there - not yet

It's been a funny couple of days. Running around crazy, friends helping us pull it all together. In fact, we probably wouldn't have managed without them. And then so many calling in to say goodbye, intensifying the sadness that we haven't spent much time with different friends. The children SEEM to be taking it all in their stride. It doesn't feel like we are leaving everything behind tomorrow morning, or that we tucked the kids into bed for the last time in those beds for two years. I hear that Wanaka is an amazing and great place to live, but so is this. Presumably in a different kind of way. I walked up the High Street today and still thought 'I like this place'. There is a real chill in the air now, and fesh snow on the hill since yesterday. A dusting. The house is in pretty good order by our standards, but goodness knows what rotting things will unearth themselves to the new lodgers as time goes by.